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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Greenwich 1965
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Greenwich Borough]
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Another development completed towards the end of 1965 was
the 35 old people's flatlets in the Plumstead Common Road. This
building not only provides its occupants with pleasant and comfortable accommodation, but offers them many extras to help them in
their advancing years. Whilst the flats are entirely self-contained,
there is a communal lounge, a television room and, in addition, a
room where visitors may stay overnight when necessary.
There is a resident warden with whom contact may be made
at any time in the case of emergency.
Together with schemes where work has already commenced,
there are further plans in the course of preparation and more than
1,800 dwellings will become available in the foreseeable future.
In conjunction with the housing of applicants, the rehousing
of families from temporary dwellings has continued in order to
provide land for redevelopment upon which permanent homes may
be built. There are 411 temporary dwellings remaining of the 1,214
that were erected after the war. Rehousing will continue until all
of these sites have been cleared.
The dwellings under Council control at 31st December, 1965, were:
| Dwellings | |
|---|---|
| Pre-war properties | 5,900 |
| Post-war properties | 8,027 |
| Temporary Dwellings | 411 |
| Miscellaneous properties | 1,280 |
| 15,618 |
During the year, the following dwellings were erected in the Borough by Local Authorities as shown below:
| Type of Dwelling | L.B.G | G.L.C. | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Houses, flats and maisonettes | 457 | 848 | 1,305 |
| Mobile Homes | — | 3 | 3 |
| Total number of dwellings | 457 | 851 | 1,308 |
It has been necessary to look carefully at the clearance areas
within the the new Borough in order to determine some degree
of priority for rehousing, in an attempt to avoid creating a
situation where a few occupied dwellings remained on each site
and thereby making it impossible to clear any one site in order
that it could be passed to the Borough Engineer as building land.
Two hundred and twenty-two families were rehoused from these
areas and it was possible to demolish 231 dwellings."