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Housing Committee, took steps to this end, but up to the close of
the year only one house had been provided by the Council. A
scheme, however, had been devised which comprised the following
items:—
Houses which will provide a parlour, living-room and
three bedrooms 11l
Nine Army Huts to be converted into bungalows, viz.:—
Living-room, scullery with bath, and three bedrooms 8
Living-room, scullery with bath, and two bedrooms 4
Total 123
Existing houses to be acquired, and
1. Made suitable for the working classes—Applied for, 54.
2. Converted into flats—1.
In these altered houses it is anticipated that about 165 families
will be accommodated.
The average number of houses to the acre will be about 20.
Application had been made to the Ministry of Health for
powers to acquire land, viz., six acres in Dalston Lane, and land
at the back of Brooke House, for the purpose of erecting blocks
of tenements, but both proposals have been abandoned through
no fault of the Housing Committee.
A preliminary survey of all the available land in the borough was
made with a view to preparing housing schemes when time and
opportunity would permit ; and since the end of the year 1919
much useful work has been done. This work will be dealt with in
the Annual Report for the year 1920.
The information which follows is supplied at the request of
the Ministry of Health in the form of replies to headings, etc., set
out by them.