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Permanent Estates.
During the year both the Borough Council and the London County Council
have still been engaged in providing accommodation for those in the greatest
need, and whilst no new flats were erected in the Borough by the county Council,
the Borough Council erected 16 new flats at Boswell Court on the Springvale
Estate Blythe Road and 1 at 15 Batson Street.
The Council acts as landlord for 3 344 principal tenants. The properties
managed include houses flats prefabs and requisitioned accommodation.
During the year a scheme for the annual renewal of applications was instituted
by the Borough council As a large number of applicants failed to
renew their applications the waiting list was considerably reduced but at
the end of the year there were still 1,299 applicants still awaiting accommodation
There is no points scheme used to assess these applicants Their
need according to bedroom deficiency, ill health insanitary condit ions, overcrowding
and separation of families is measured and used as a guide in allocating
accommodation.

Overcrowding.
Two licences were granted under Section 61 of the Housing Act, 1936
and one under Section 80 of the Housing Act, 1957.
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