View report page

73
Flooding in Kilburn.
The question of flooding in Kilburn has from time to time received
careful consideration, and in 1921, on a recurrence of the nuisance, the
Public Health Committee resolved to support a representation by the
Works Committee to the London County Council on the subject.
During 1924, several complaints were received by the Works
Committee from residents in the Kilburn district of floodings which
had occurred in their premises during rain; and that Committee then
gave instructions for the attention of the County Council to be called
to the matter, and for that authority to be urged to put in hand at
the earliest possible moment the work of reconstructing their sewer
in High Road, Kilburn.
I am glad to note that the County Council now has in hand the
matter of the construction of a north-western storm relief sewer. The
estimated cost of the work amounts to £527,000 ; altogether, the construction
of about five-and-a-quarter miles of sewer is involved; and
its construction will occupy about two-and-a-half years. The proposed
new sewer should relieve the floodings of which this Council and the
Willesden Urban District Council have complained, and it will also
improve conditions in other districts draining into the Ranelagh sewer
and, what is of great importance, cut off part of the storm water from
the low level areas.
Public Conveniences.
The question of the erection of a convenience for women on a site
abutting upon "Grangeway just off the High Road, Kilburn, is still
the subject of discussion with the London County Council. The scheme
has been agreed upon by the Borough Council in conjunction with the
Willesden Urban District Council, and it is to be hoped that the matter
will be satisfactorily settled in the current year.
The new convenience for men and women at West End Green was
opened on December 5th, 1924, while that for men only, at Fortune
Green, was in course of erection at the close of the year.
No further progress has been made with the provision of a convenience
for women near the Finchley Road Metropolitan Railway
Station, or one for both sexes at Chalk Farm,