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Apart from the existing overcrowding, as shown by the number
of current applications, the influx of new industries to the area which
is expected to follow upon present activities is bound to bring new
residents. These residents, after a short domicile, will expect
proper housing accommodation. In view of the absence of suitablesites
it appears that any accommodation provided must be in the
form of tenements or by the erection of houses outside the boundary
of the district.
I do not think the Council should dismiss too lightly the possibility
of reclaiming parts of the extensive marsh land, with a
view to future building use. Modern methods of reclamation
obviate many of the objections previously properly sustained.
It is understood that on the completion of the building programme
of the London County Council in the year 1932 there will
have been erected a total of approximately 7,000 houses by that
Authority within the Barking area, giving an added population
estimated at 33,000.

Of the 1,609 houses shown above as part of Municipal Housing
Scheme, 382 were provided by the Barking Town U.D.C. and 1,227
by the London County Council.