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New Properties Completed—69/99 (odd) Pelton Road, 16
dwellings. 18/21 (consec.) John Penn Street, 4 dwellings. 22/35
(consec.) Bennett Grove, 14 dwellings. 1/35 (odd) Coldbath Street,
In addition, 12 garages were provided adjoining 69/99 Pelton
Road and a further 10 in Bennett Grove.
I am indebted to Mr. K. B. Leverton, Surveyor to the Morden
College Estate, who so kindly provided this information.
House Purchase and Housing Acts, 1958 and 1959.—
Improvement Grants.—Section 20 of the Housing Act, 1949, as
modified by Section 16 of the Housing Repairs and Rents Act,
1954, empowering local authorities to make grants to private owners
for improvements and conversions of sums up to £400 or half the
cost, whichever is the less, where the dwellings would provide
satisfactory accommodation for more than 15 years, has now been
replaced by Section 30 of the Housing (Financial Provisions) Act,
1958. These grants are now known as discretionary grants.
During the year 118 grants were so made.
Section 4 of the House Purchase and Housing Act, 1959, intro
duces a new system of grants known as standard grants which, if
certain conditions are fulfilled, can be claimed as a right.
Up to the close of the year 34 such grants had been agreed.
Re-Housing.—
(a) Borough Council—There were 74 new dwellings provided
by the Council during the year and the number of families housed
and re-housed including transfers, casual voids, etc., amounted to
300. Of this number 4 were in respect of overcrowded cases and 18
families re-housed from outside the Borough.
The Housing Department now has control of 4,246 Councilowned units of accommodation, an increase of 76 over that of the
previous year.
(b) London County Council.—During the year ended
31st December, 1962, the L.C.C. had provided alternative accommodation for a total of 362 Greenwich families of which 1 had been
certified as an overcrowded case. Of this figure, 256 were housed
on L.C.C. housing estates outside the Borough. Two families from
outside Greenwich were rehoused in the Borough under the L.C.C.
scheme.
(c) Other.—A further 2 families were rehoused by other means.