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well in progress. The final stage of this part being undertaken by
the Borough Engineer's Department comprises four blocks (Nos.8, 9,
10 and 11) and is planned on the two island sites bounded by Golborne
Gardens, Golborne Road, Southam Street and Adair Road. The redevelopment
provides for the closing of Appleford Road between these
two island sites.
Southam House, on the corner of Adair Road and Southam
Street, and the Prince Arthur Public House, 10 Golborne Road, are not
to be redeveloped.
The present houses on the island sites are, in the main, of
three storeys with basements, the basements at the rear being at garden
or yard level. This causes a difference in site levels between the
back and the front of the houses of approximately 7 ft.6 ins., and to
deal with this problem the new blocks have been planned with basements
which provide areas for tenants' stores and for garages.
The accommodation to be provided is as follows:-
Block A: Three storeys with main elevation facing Adair
Road-one 3-roomed flat and fourteen 4-roomed flats, with
eleven basement garages and fifteen basement stores for
tenants.
Block B: Pour storeys with main elevation facing Adair
Road. The block is connected to Southam House, and has
twelve 2-roomed flats, with four basement garages and
twelve basement stores for tenants.
Block C: Three storeys facing Golborne Road. Seven shops
and three surgery units for doctors on the ground floor;
ten 4-roomed maisonettes on the first and second floors;
five basement garages and ten basement stores for tenants,
and a store under each of the shops.
Block D: Pour storeys facing Southam Street. Twenty-six
2-roomed flats, with six basement garages and eighteen
basement stores for tenants.
The remaining portion of the Kensal New Town Area, which is
zoned for residential development, will be dealt with by the Council
and the London County Council on the following basis:-
(i) The Council will undertake the redevelopment of 3.1
acres to the north and 1.62 acres to the south of
the 6½ acres upon which they are at present engaged.
This area, including the present 6½ acres, is
bounded by Kensal Road, Golborne Road, Bosworth
Road and the railway.
(ii) The London County Council will undertake the redevelopment
of 7.2 acres to the east of the borough
council's present 6½ acres. This area is bounded
by Golborne Road, Kensal Road and the railway. The
London County Council will also be responsible for
the redevelopment of a small area of 0.41 acres
between Kensal Road and the canal, to the west of
an area in Paddington, of 3.6 acres which the County
Council now propose to zone as open space in place
of the open space of 3.6 acres originally proposed
at the eastern end of the area.
The London County Council will be responsible for school
extensions and the provision of additional open space north of
Kensal Road.