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GENERAL
No new clearance areas were represented to the Public Health Committee during the year,
not because there are no further areas in the Borough which need representation, but because the
work of rehousing already in hand will more than use up all the available replacement sites. As I
pointed out last year, there is an estimated deficiency of 603 between the flats to be provided on
sites already in the possession of the Council and the number of flats required for rehousing tenants
from clearance areas already confirmed, the Avenues redevelopment area, and for the relief of overcrowding.
THE AVENUES REDEVELOPMENT AREA
The public inquiry into the Council's proposed redevelopment plan for this area was held
in March, 1938. Soon after the close of the inquiry the report on road improvements by Major
Bressey was published and one of the roads he proposed involved a viaduct over Fulham Road right
across the redevelopment area. Naturally the adoption of Major Bressey's proposal would involve
drastic alteration to the Council's proposed redevelopment plan for this area, including a considerable
curtailment in the number of flats which could be erected on the site. The Minister of Health having
intimated that he could not give his decision on the Council's redevelopment plan until the Minister
of Transport had considered Major Bressey's proposal, consultations were held with officials of both
Ministries and the County Council, and finally the Minister of Health, on 20th April, 1939, approved
the Council's plan with a minor modification. This modification was in pursuance of an agreement
reached at the inquiry between the Council and a firm owning property in the area. Photographs of
the area were included in my report for last year.
INSPECTION OF DWELLING-HOUSES
A detailed analysis of all the inspections carried out during 1938 is given on pages 50-51.
The following table gives the housing statistics in the form required by the Minister of Health