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The extreme temperatures for 1933 were :—
Maximum in the screen, 90.5 deg., on August 6th.
Minimum in the screen, 22.4 deg., on January 23rd.
Minimum on the grass, 13.0 deg., on January 23rd.
There were 146 nights with ground-frost during the year.
Skating was in progress on one or more of the Hampstead ponds for
some days during the second half of January, and again in December.
The heaviest snowstorm of the year was that of February 24th-25th.
This covered the ground to the depth of only a few inches in Hampstead,
but the heights of the Chilterns, less than 25 miles to the
north-west, lay under fully two feet of snow when the storm ended."
Town Planning.
Three Town Planning Schemes have been applied to Hampstead
during 1933. These aim at protecting the existing amenities of the
major portion of the Borough, and, what is of special importance, of
the open spaces of Hampstead, Parliament Hill Fields and Ken Wood;
and enables development and redevelopment in the vicinity to be guided
and controlled so as to ensure that the character and design of the
buildings will be in harmony with the neighbourhood and that the
amenities of the district shall not only escape injury but also be
improved. It is gratifying to find that safeguards have been secured
so that the enjoyment of the existing open spaces will not be seriously
interfered with by the improper development of surrounding properties,
and that future alterations in the Borough will be adequately
controlled.
VITAL STATISTICS.
Population.
For the purpose of this Report the Registrar-General's estimate
of the population at the middle of 1933, which was calculated to have
been 90,380, has been adopted. This shows an increase of 1,433, as
compared with 88,947 at Census, 1931.