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programme for the clearance of unhealthy areas and, in this
connection, the London County Council asked to be furnished
with an approximate estimate of the provisional slum clearance
programme. A survey of various areas in the borough was made
and those areas which might prove suitable for treatment under
the Housing Act, 1936, were divided into two classes, viz.:-
Class I - Areas adequately planned but where
structurally the buildings are worn out and where
demolition is necessary on health grounds, and
which would then provide sites suitable for the
erection of housing accommodation.
Class II - Areas consisting chiefly of mews dwellings
which, owing to sanitary defects inherent in the
original buildings and sanitary or structural defects
due to disrepair, are prejudicial to the health of
the occupants; or where the area is so badly planned
as to cause congestion of the buildings in the area.
At the end of the year consideration was being given to
five areas in Class I and ten areas in Class II. Any schemes
for demolition and clearance of these areas will be governed
by the availability of accommodation for rehousing the persons
to be displaced. As a commencement to a slum clearance
programme, the following two areas were officially represented
as clearance areas under the Housing Act, 1936:-
Elgin Mews - Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11,
12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21,
22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 28.
Lionel Mews - Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 10, 12, 14, 16, 17,
18, 19 and 20.
Overcrowding.