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the County Council and. the Borough Council o
The remaining areas listed above will be dealt with by the
Borough Council, who decided that the most urgent was the Kensal New
Town Area. In this connection, Sir William Holford, F.R.I.B.A., M.T.P.I.,
was retained by the Council to prepare and submit an architectural lay-out
for the redevelopment of the area.
The problems of overspill of population necessitate the
decanting of persons at present living in the area while development
on cleared sites proceeds, and the plan, as approved by the Council,
proposes redevelopment in three phases.
The first phase includes the construction of dwellings on
sites which are at present cleared, comprising two 14-storey blocks, each
of seventy-eight flats, and two four-storey blocks, each of ten
maisonettes.
At a later stage the area bounded by Golborne Gardens, Golborne
Road, Southam Street and Adair Road will be redeveloped and finally
the area adjacent to Kensal Road where the majority of the industry in
the area is at present located, would be dealt with under the plan.
The London County Council approved in outline the first stage
of the lay-out of the Kensal New Town Area and permission was granted
relating to the redevelopment for housing purposes at a residential density
of 136 persons per acre of the area bounded by Hazlewood Crescent, Golborne
Road, Southam Street, Adair Road, Appleford Road and Bosworth Road comprising
in total approximately acres 0
In view of this, on the 11th December, 1956, the Council
declared the first section of the Kensal New Town Area, comprising the
following thirty-four houses, to be a clearance area s-
Noso 10 - 18 (even) and 18a, Adair Road
Nos. 26 - 56 (even) Appleford Road
Nos 17, Bosworth Road
Nos. 35 - 57 (odd) Golborne Gardens
On the 12th February, 1957, the Council made a Compulsory
Purchase Order in respect of this area, excluding those premises which
were in the Council's ownership but including the vacant site of No. 59,
Golborne Gardens, as adjoining land, the acquisition of which was
reasonably necessary for the satisfactory development or user of the
cleared area. Objections were received from certain owners and the
Minister of Housing and Local Government ordered a Public Local Inquiry
to be held on 11th July, 1957•
The Minister confirmed the Order, but modified it by excluding
two properties (No. 37, Golborne Gardens and No. 56, Appleford Road) from
the clearance area and including them as land which the Council are
authorised to purchase compulsorily outside the clearance area. The
Minister also directed that the Council should make payments in respect
of No. 44, Appleford Road and the basement of No. 54, Appleford Road, on
the ground that these properties had been well-maintained. The Order
became operative on the 23rd November, 1957.
In addition, the Council decided to make Compulsory Purchase
Orders in respect of two additional sites within the area as follows
No.l. Situated on the north-east corner of the junction of
Bosworth Road and Golborne Gardens and formerly
occupied by No. 40, Golborne Gardens and Nos. 9, 11,
13 and 15, Bosworth Road.
(The site formerly occupied by No. 42, Golborne Gardens is
also within this area, but has been excluded from the
Order as it is in the Council's ownership.)