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During the year 72 grants were so made.
Section 4 of the House Purchase and Housing Act, 1959, introduces
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 29 such grants had been agreed.
Re-Housing.—
(a) Borough Council.—There were 68 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
354. Of this number 4 were in respect of overcrowded cases and 25
families re-housed from outside the Borough.
The Housing Department now has control of 4.414 Councilowned
units of accommodation, an increase of 168 over that of the
previous year.
(b) London County Council.—During the year ended
31st December. 1963, the L.C.C. had provided alternative accommodation
for a total of 424 Greenwich families of which 3 had
been certified as overcrowded cases. Of this figure, 217 were
housed on L.C.C. housing estates outside the Borough. One
family from outside Greenwich was rehoused in the Borough
under the L.C.C. scheme.
(c) Other.—A further 13 families were rehoused by other
means.
Overcrowding.—As a direct result of rehousing carried out
under (a), (b) and (c) above 20 cases of overcrowding were abated
during the year under review. The number of unabated certified
cases of overcrowding in the Borough now amounts to 31.
During 1963 there was a rise in the number of complaints
received concerning overcrowding, the year's figure of 59 showing
an increase of 25 over that of the previous year. Each complaint
was investigated by the Public Health Inspector concerned and as a
result of these investigations 15 families were found to be overcrowded
according to the standards laid down by the Housing Act,
1957, and were subsequently certified as such.
It can be seen by the figures in the following table that there
was a definite decline between the years 1946 and 1960 in the
number of families found to be living in overcrowded conditions
in the Borough. Since then there has been a slight but perhaps
significant increase.