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Building Scheme.
By far the greatest venture the Council has yet attempted is the
building scheme on the Arica Road Site, which is partly in Deptford
and partly in Lewisham. The scheme has been sanctioned and approval
obtained from the Ministry of Health for the erection of —
78 Type A houses
160 (parlour houses)
238 Total
The work is now well in hand.
Conversion of Houses into Flats.
The Borough does not abound in houses suitable for conversion
into flats, but in the 12 cases in which houses have been so converted
they have been eagerly sought after, and there has been no difficulty in
obtaining fair rents.
The Council has during the year converted two houses-into four
self-contained dwellings, and these have also readily let at economic
rents. The trouble in these converted houses seems to be the difficulty
in finding decently behaved and moderately quiet families for the
separate dwellings. These houses not being built with sound-proof
walls and floors, one family can be, and frequently is, a great nuisance
to a neighbour with finer instincts and a proper sense of the fitness of
things.
FOOD CONTROL.
By permission of the Council, the services of the Sanitary Inspectors
were lent to the Food Control Committee as last year. Numerous
inspections were carried out and the results reported to that Committee.