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The Borough Council's Five Years' Housing Programme.
Cricklewood Housing Scheme.
At its meeting on 26th January, 1933, the Council considered a
report from the Housing Committee in relation to this Scheme, which
represents the greatest effort made by Hampstead, both in the direction
of providing alternative accommodation for persons to be displaced
as a consequence of action taken in respect of Clearance Areas
or Improvement Areas and of making provision for the re-housing
of the poorer inhabitants living in overcrowded conditions or in
uninhabitable houses. This Scheme will be carried through without
any State grant or subsidy, and the accommodation will be available
for the working-classes at rents which they can afford to pay.
The Housing Committee had made exhaustive enquiries as to
possible schemes on land within the Borough, but without success.
Finally, at the instigation of the Ministry of Health, enquiries were
made in respect of land outside, but adjacent to, the Borough. A
suitable site comprising 18½ acres having been found at Cricklewood
in the area of the Hendon Borough Council, used as a Home of Rest
for Horses, application was made to the Minister for an Order to
transfer such powers of the London County Council as are necessary
to enable a scheme to be carried out on that site.
At a meeting on 29th June, 1933, the Council appointed Mr.
Douglas Wood, F.R.I.B.A., F.S.I., as the Architect for the Scheme,
and also authorised the Housing Committee to take all steps necessary
to obtain tenders for the proposed housing scheme, and to obtain the
approval under the Hendon Town Planning Scheme, 1928, to the
building and other proposals involved.
The number of dwellings to be provided is 290, made up as
follows, viz.:—
32 One-Bedroom Flats.
136 Two-Bedroom Flats.
112 Three-Bedroom Houses.
10 Four-Bedroom and Parlour Type Houses.
Each dwelling will have a living room, a bathroom and a
kitchenette, in addition to the rooms mentioned,