The White Hart Iane Estate i.s about 225 acres in extent and was
purchased by the Council in 1901 at an average price of E400 an acre.
The Estate is situated in Nrth London about 6 miles distant from
Traffic facilities are afforded by train and tran
Charing Cross.
service with workmen's fares.
At the present time roads have been formed and sewers construct-
ed on about 40 acres,on which 618 cottages with accommodation for
4,901 persons have been completed or are in course of erection. Plans
for a further 258 cottages providing for 1,820 persons are in course
of preparation.
The setting out of so much of the Estate as it is at present
proposed to develop is shown on the accompanying site plan, from
which it will be seen that a public garden has been provided on the
This section has been allocat-
Tower Gardens Section of the Estate.
ed to the purpose of a gift of 10,000 by Lord Swaythling to the
Council to be applied in the provi sion of gardens, trees and other
amenities in connection with this portion of the Estate and the main-
tenance of the gardens and trees.
The cottages are two-storey buildings and similar in character
to those on the Totterdown Fields and Norbury Estates, with the ex
he Tower Gardens Section the special amenities re-
ception that on
ferred to allow increased size of building plots, giving larger
