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The following is a summary of particulars of the seven improvement areas:—
Total number of houses in improvement areas
910
Population „ „ „
12,010
Number of families „ „ „
3,364
Number of houses suggested for demolition
85
(Eight of these are large tenement houses).
Total number of families to be displaced
676
Total number of persons to be displaced
2,942
When the 1,268 persons have been displaced on account of their overcrowded conditions, there
will remain vacant approximately
104 one-roomed tenements,
93 two-roomed tenements and
17 three-roomed tenements.
These vacated rooms can be taken over by congested families in the remaining parts of the
houses in which the rooms are situated, or may be re-occupied by smaller families from elsewhere.
3. Individual Houses not Capable of Repair at a Reasonable Cost.
The following were included in the five years programme as dwellings to be dealt with as unfit
for occupation. In each case they are mews dwellings with stables, garages or store places below.
No. of No. of No. of persons
houses. families. to be displaced
Stanley Gardens Mews 9 9 41
Pelham Mews 11 11 50
Roseland Place 5 5 15
Albion Place 4 4 12
29 29 118
4. Houses for Re-conditioning under Section 17 of the Housing Act, 1930.
It was estimated that it will be necessary to deal with 300 houses outside the above-mentioned
areas under this heading during the next five years, but this work will involve no displacements.
5. Statement of Total Demolitions, Closures and Displacements of Persons for whom
New Housing Accommodation will be Required.
Description.
Houses
to be
demolished.
Houses to be
closed
(all mews
dwellings).
Total no. of persons displaced by
demolition, closure or application
of other powers and for whom new
accommodation will be required.
Clearance areas
80
—
579
Improvement areas
85
—
2,618*
Individual unfit houses
—
29
118
Totals
165
29
3,315*
* The figure of persons to be displaced from improvement areas was calculated on the
assumption that every person over 10 years of age would have 400 cubic feet and every person
under 10 years of age would have 300 cubic feet of free air space in a sleeping room.
In the first set of improvement area by-laws the standard has now been fixed at 450 cubic feet
per person, irrespective of age, and, based on this standard, the figure 2,618 becomes 3,354, and the
figure 3,315 becomes 4,051.
6. Rehousing Schemes.
Shortly before the council prepared their five years programme they purchased 9£ acres of land
at Dalgarno Gardens, North Kensington, and arrangements were made with the Kensington
Housing Trust, the Peabody Donation Fund and the Sutton Dwellings Trust, for the erection of
flats or tenements thereon. Furthermore, the council contemplated in their five years programme
that either they or public utility societies would erect new housing accommodation on some of the