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Jaime
Kaminski
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In February 1901, the London Brighton and South Coast Railway submitted plans to Brighton County Borough Council and the Local Government Board to build 125 artisan dwellings in Compton Road and Inwood Crescent. Under legislation for the housing of the working classes, this development was a rehousing scheme to replace dwellings which were to be demolished to make room for an extension to the Brighton Railway Goods Yard. It produced a legacy of good-quality housing, but as a rehousing scheme it was a failure because very few people from the demolished houses became tenants.