View report page

The Wormholt Estate lies half-way between Shepherds Bush
and Acton, and is well served by four railway stations Wood
Lane, East Acton, Wormwood Scrubbs and Shepherds Bush.
There arc many workmen's trains at reasonable fares.
The estate is well laid out on broad commodious expansive
lines. It lias an open-air swimming bath and ample playing ground.
There are gardens, some of them quite large gardens, attached
to each house. Many of the houses have gardens at the back and
front. The houses are being completed at the rate of 40 to 50
per month. There arc 600 houses now in process of construction,
and eventually the estate will have 710 L.C.C. houses.
A few tenement houses containing flats (60) will also be built.
It is believed that all the houses and flats will be completed by
July, 1928. Houses have already been retained by the following
boroughs—Kensington, St. Marylebone, Hammersmith, Hampstead,
Paddington and Westminster.
The estate was visited in September, 1927, on behalf of the
Council, by Alderman W. Howes, Chairman of the Public Health
Committee, the Town Clerk, and the Medical Officer of Health,
and a thorough inspection made of houses already built and
others in process of construction.
The houses will be of various types, and will contain 3 rooms,
4 rooms, and 5 rooms. The rents will range from 12s. to 15s. 6d.
per week, exclusive of rates and water charges. The houses contain
at least 2 bedrooms ; the 5-room houses and some of the 4-room
houses have 3 bedrooms each.
In every house there is a well-ventilated larder, food cupboards
and shelves, a kitchen dresser, a portable copper, a coal
bunker, one or more wardrobe cupboards, a bath, a separate water
closet, and provision for a hot-water supply.
Electric light is installed everywhere on the shilling-in-the-slot
system. In each house there is one gas point and one gas fire in
a bedroom.