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Housing.
Provision of New Accommodation
During the year 1964 construction of the following 171 new
dwellings was completed:—
By the Battersea Borough Council:—
Dwellings
Malins Court, Nightingale Lane
8
38/43 (consec.) Sudbrooke Road
6
14
By the London County Council:—
—
Antrim House, Stormont Road
10
103/125 (odd) Battersea Park Road
12
Savona House, Savona Estate
54
Shepton Court, Handley Street
42
Mobile dwellings:—
Arden Street
9
Stainforth Road, Shillington Street, Este Road
29
156
By Private Owners:—
—
120/146 Stewarts Road (Caretaker's flat)
1
—
1
171
Slum Clearance.
During the year, two small areas in Chatham Road and St. James
Grove were represented for slum clearance, and were declared as
clearance areas by the Council. A total of 28 houses were inspected,
and 12 were represented as unfit.
In addition, the Doddington Road South Area, comprising 35
houses, which had been represented in 1962, was declared as a clearance
area by the Council in 1964, and the Minister of Housing and Local
Government confirmed the Barmore Street Areas Nos. 1-6, which had
been declared in 1963.
Inspections made during 1964 totalled 283.
Houses in Multiple Occupation.
An area comprising approximately 130 houses is at present being
inspected. Detailed inspections of 38 houses have been made, and 315
visits carried out. Providing undertakings are received from the owners
of properties to carry out all the necessary work, including the provision
of additional facilities and the means of escape in case of fire,
formal notices are not served. In the event of work in connection with
these undertakings not being carried out within a reasonable time,
authority is obtained from the Housing Committee to serve formal
notices. No displacement of persons from premises, because of the use
of rooms in the premises to provide additional facilities for the families
in occupation, has yet occurred. The standards required are based on