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The total number of families removed from Hampstead to County
Council houses since 1927, through action by the Borough Council, is
260 involving 1,395 persons. The additional 54 families are accounted
for by changes in tenancies at the subsidy houses (18 at Watling and
36 at Wormholt), the Borough Council having the right to nominate
tenants for any of the 100 subsidised houses which become vacant.
The Council resolved in March, 1936, to enter into an agreement
with the County Council for the purpose of providing accommodation
(when required by the Council) on the County Council's Estates for
persons of the working classes who might be displaced as a result of
the Borough Council's operations under the Housing Acts, in connection
with clearance or improvement areas, or the demolition of
insanitary houses or the closing of parts of buildings, and agreed to
pay in respect of each dwelling provided the sum of £1 17s. 6d. per
annum for a period of 40 years, towards the expenses in the provision
and maintenance of the dwellings.
This agreement was in addition to the existing arrangement with
the County Council whereby 100 houses at Wormholt Estate adjoining
the White City, or the Watling Estate at Hendon, have been allocated
to the Borough Council, in respect of each of which the Borough
Council pays £7 per annum.
Borough Council Municipal Dwellings.
At Park Dwellings, Garnett Road (late Lower Cross Road), 42
tenements are provided, as follows: 12 two-roomed tenements, 20
three-roomed tenements; 10 four-roomed tenements. Each is provided
with a scullery but no bath.
At South End Close, South End Green, 140 flats are provided, as
follows:— 20 one-bedroom, 78 two-bedroom, and 42 three-bedroom
flats. Each is provided with a living-room, scullery, bathroom.
The "Westcroft" Estate.
The Borough Council's Housing Estate at Cricklewood was
opened in 1935. It provides 32 one-bedroom Hats; 136 two-bedroom
flats; 112 three-bedroom houses; and 10 four-bedroom houses with a
parlour—a total of 290 dwellings.