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Golden Yard: (A congested area on the west side of Heath
Street, with 4 houses in Holly Mount.)
Kings College Mews West: (The southern half, together with a
dwelling at the northern extremity.)
These dwellings were considered, by my predecessor, by reason
of disrepair or sanitary defect, to be unfit for human habitation, and,
by reason of the narrowness or bad arrangement of the streets, to be
injurious or dangerous to the health of the inhabitants, and he recommended
that they should be dealt with as Clearance Areas, i.e., the
buildings to be demolished and the persons so displaced to be rehoused
in other accommodation to be provided by the Council.
In June, 1932, the Housing Committee reported upon the question
of omitting certain premises from the proposed Clearance Area of
Golden Yard, and upon their recommendation the Borough Council
agreed to exclude Nos. 13, 14, 15 and 16 (Alma Cottage), Holly
Mount, and 4, Golden Yard, from the Golden Yard Area upon the
owner giving an undertaking, inter alia, to carry out certain works
approved by the Borough Engineer and the Medical Officer of Health,
and agreeing not to use or permit to be used No. 4, Golden Yard for
dwelling house purposes.
During the year the Housing Committee has continued to give
earnest consideration to the question of the provision of additional
housing accommodation which would also enable them to provide
homes for persons living in certain properties proposed to be dealt
with under the Housing Acts, action in respect of which has been
precluded on account of our inability to offer alternative accommodation.
The Committee has given further consideration to the question
of giving effect to the five-years' programme of proposals which were
submitted by the Council to the London County Council in pursuance
of Section 25 of the Housing Act, 1930, which proposals involved the
erection of 298 dwelling houses. In such consideration the Committee
has had regard to Circular 1238, dated the 12th January, 1932,
of the Ministry of Health suggesting that local authorities should
concentrate their efforts on the provision of a type of house which can
be built at a low cost and can be let at a rent within the means of the
more poorly paid workers.