ABSTRACT

Land values rise with attempts at Social Reform. Parks and open spaces are provided at the public cost, and the price of land goes up at once, so that the poor cannot afford to live in the neighbourhood and enjoy the improvements. In Kilmarnock almost all the land is owned by Lady Howard de Walden. A local landowner has made an offer to the London County Council to contribute £1000 towards the cost of laying a tramway from the Streatham terminus in the High Road to the County boundary at Mitcham Lane. This gentleman evidently knows who it is that reaps the chief benefit of a forward tramway policy, and is willing to pay something for benefits received. Other landlords will now be invited to contribute their share. In London, till about 30 years ago, a toll of -halfpenny was collected from each person crossing Waterloo Bridge in either direction.