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HOUSING.
Slum Clearance.
Further consideration was given to Ministry of Health Circular
1331 dated April 6th, 1933, during the year under review, and the
Council at their meeting in October 1934, decided to deal with a
number of small insanitary areas in the Borough in accordance with
the provisions of the Housing Acts, 1925 and 1930, in addition to
three areas described in the following table which the Council in
June 1934, decided to declare as Clearance Areas.
Area. Dwelling houses. No. of person to be displaced.
Tiger Yard. 17 41
Joiner's Arms Yard 6 25
Woodland Cottages 10 33
Under the arrangement which has been made with the London
County Council, this Council agreed to pay to the County Council a
sum of £1 17s. 6d. a year for forty years in respect of every dwelling
which that authority provides to re-house persons displaced as the
result of slum clearance operations by this Council.
The question of the number of dwellings which the London
County Council would be able to offer in respect of representations
made by your Medical Officer of Health under the Housing Act, 1930,
was also considered. That authority anticipated that they could
provide re-housing accommodation for approximately 20 Camberwell
families per month. Representations have accordingly been
timed to correspond with this arrangement, and at the 1st June,
1935, 20 small insanitary areas involving 123 dwelling houses have
been represented in accordance with the provisions of Section 1 (2)
of the Housing Act, 1930.
The question of the provision of alternative accommodation for
families displaced by the closure of individual unfit houses was at the
time of the preparation of this report still under consideration by this
Authority and the London County Council.