The King and Queen paid an informal visit to the
Hamp- stead Garden Suburb last Saturday afternoon. His Majesty, who was shown over the estate by Mr. Henry Vivian (Chairman of the Co-Partnership Tenants Association), Lord Howick, and the Directors and Manager of the Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust, was much interested in the scheme, and greatly approved of the plan of attaching gardens to every house. The estate, which originally consisted of 240 acres, has now been enlarged by a further tract of 412 acres, 112 of which are taken by the Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust and 300 by the Co- partnership Tenants Society. Already £300,000 has been spent in co-partnership housing in Hampstead, and this will be increased to £1,250,000 when the whole under- taking is completed, the number of houses projected being about 3,800, accommodating a total population of 19,000, exclusive of the residents on other parts of the Garden Suburb. The method of the Society is to purchase land in the suburb of a growing town and lay it out with a limited number of houses to the acre. No houses are sold to indi- vidual purchasers, and corporate control is continued after the estate is developed and the whole of the buildings erected. Mr. Vivian is to be warmly congratulated on the success of his movement—a success which is most thoroughly deserved.
