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cannot be included in any clearance order, redevelopment scheme,
demolition order or closing order made by the local authority
within a specified period.
Overcrowding.—A standard is laid down as to the number of
people who may occupy a dwelling without causing it to be overcrowded.
The Act also requires a survey of the district to be carried
out to ascertain what overcrowding exists. (The results of the
survey which was carried out during the year will be found set out
on pages 108.9.) The powers of the Council for the enforcement
of the abatement of overcrowding will not take effect until a day
appointed by the Minister of Health, and in the case of overcrowding
existing prior to the appointed day an abatement order cannot be
enforced unless suitable alternative accommodation has first been
offered. A local authority must supply, on request, a landlord or
occupier with a statement of the number of persons who may occupy
a dwelling.
Financial.—The financial provisions of the Act relate to the
contributions from the Exchequer and to the consolidation of
housing accounts.
New Working Class Dwellings.
During the year 50 tenements were erected at Stewarts Lane
by the Council as part of their housing programme. These flats
form two of the four blocks to be erected and were intended to
rehouse families displaced through the operation of clearance
orders. Inasmuch as the schemes which the Council had under
consideration had not progressed sufficiently to require the immediate
use of these tenements for this purpose the Council agreed
to rehouse the tenants from the Didcot Street and Lithgow Street
clearance areas, on the condition that the London County Council
would provide an equivalent amount of accommodation for this
Council when required.
The net rents fixed by the Council were 6s. 4d., 7s. 9d. and 9s.
weekly for the 3-roomed, 4-roomed and 5-roomed dwellings
respectively.
Plans and estimates for the two remaining blocks were passed
during the year, and it is anticipated that these flats also will soon
be occupied.
The Council decided to name the block on the Battersea Park
Road frontage " Lennane House," after Dr. G. Quin Lennane, who
was Medical Officer of Health from 1906 to 1934.
Plans and estimates were also prepared for the erection of a
block of tenements on the site of Nos. 231 to 253 York Road,
which formed part of the original Plough Road area represented in
1920, and the freehold interest of which had been acquired by the
Council for future development after it had been excluded from the
area by the Minister of Health.