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Kensington 1935
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Borough]
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been, or will be, dealt with in other ways, and at least two are left for consideration by the county
council. The representatives of the borough council undertook that the remainder would be
considered for action by the borough council. Three of these are already in hand ; two have been
represented by me as clearance areas and the third has been included in an area which has been made
the subject of a compulsory purchase order.
Three areas, where the property is not ripe for clearance but which appear to the council to be
suitable for the erection of blocks of flats, have been made the subject of compulsory purchase
orders. In two of these cases the borough council propose to erect the new flats, while in the other
one the work will be undertaken bv the Kensington housing trust.
The following table gives the clearance and compulsory purchase areas in the borough which were in hand or completed during 1935 :—
| Name of area. | Date of declaration. | Action taken. | No. of premises originally on site. | No. of persons originally in occupation. | Position at end of 1935. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Talbot Grove and Mews | Dec., 1930. | Com. Purchase Order. | 26 | 170 | 64 new flats completed by end of 1935, and these provide accommodation for 380 people. |
| Adair Road/Southam Street. | July, 1931. | do. | 6 | 113 | Nine flats completed and occupied by 50 people. |
| Barker Street | July, 1931. | Clearance Order. | 57 | 236 | Buildings demolished but site not yet developed. |
| Haydens Place/Tavistock Mews. | Oct., 1933. | do. | 10 | 29 | Buildings demolished and four lock-up garages erected on part of site. |
| Silvester Mews | Oct., 1933. | Com. Purchase Order. | 20 | 110 | Buildings vacated but not yet demolished. |
| Gadsden Mews | Jan., 1934. | Clearance Order. | 14 | 44 | Buildings demolished and site now vacant. |
| Edenham Mews | Feb., 1934. | Com. Purchase Order. | 10 | 34 | Order confirmed by Minister but buildings not yet demolished. |
| Kensal Road and West Row | July, 1934. | do. | 5 | 17 | Order confirmed. Kensington housing trust to use site to extend their housing accommodation. |
| South Row and Great Western Terrace. | Oct., 1934. | do. | 33 | 142 | Order confirmed but premises not yet acquired. |
| Bramley Road and Blechynden Street. | Oct., 1934. | do. | 11 | 117 | ditto. |
| Portland Road, Walmer Road and Clarendon Road | Oct., 1934. | do. | 22 | 119 | ditto. |
| Bramley Mews | Feb., 1935. | Clearance Order. | 13 | 43 | Clearance order confirmed but buildings not yet vacated. |
| Tabernacle Terrace | July, 1935. | do. | 7 | 68 | Buildings vacated and proposals in hand for erection of 16 flats. |
| Manchester Mews | Oct., 1935. | do. | 4 | 25 | Ministry of Health enquiry held May, 1936—result not yet known. |
| Chelsea Grove | Oct., 1935. | do. | 15 | 23 | Order not yet confirmed by Minister. |
| Yeomans Row | Oct., 1935. | do. | 18 | 155 | ditto. |
Improvement Areas.
The council's five years' programme proposed that seven areas in the borough, containing 910 houses
with a population of 12,010, should be dealt with as improvement areas under the Housing Act,
1930. The Act of 1935 abolished improvement area procedure except in those cases where the
declaration had already been made before that Act received Royal Assent on the 2nd of August.
On that date three of the areas in Kensington had been declared. Other procedure will have to be
adopted in dealing with the remaining four improvement areas. Fortunately the three areas
declared were the largest and the most important from the point of view of improvement area
procedure.