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APPENDIX B
Extract from Minutes of the Council,
2nd July, 1936.
Housing Act, 1930: Fount Street Area.
It will be recalled that the Council, at its meeting on the 30th
April last (Minutes, page 648), adopted our recommendation that
notice should be served upon the London County Council under
section 16 (5) of the Housing Act, 1930, to the effect that the
Borough Council was about to take into consideration a proposal
that the Fount Street Area should be declared by the Borough
Council to be a clearance area, and that an assurance should be
given to the central authority that the arrangements for the
clearance and development of the area would be carried through
within a reasonably short time.
This notice was duly given to the County Council, together with
the assurance referred to, and that authority intimated that if the
necessary resolutions following upon the official representation by
the Medical Officer of Health were passed by the Borough Council
on the 2nd July the former would itself refrain from dealing with
the area.
We have now received from the Medical Officer of Health his
official representation and report, which we herewith submit for
the information of the Council:—
Report.
The Council will remember that the Fount Street Area, as it is now
termed, was originally included in the Hemans Street Area, but that as
the two areas, together consisting of some 200 houses, were considered too
large for the Council to declare at the same time, it was agreed that the
Hemans Street Area should be represented first and the Fount Street Area
later. The Hemans Street Area was represented on the 7th September,
1931, and it is understood that the rebuilding of that area has now advanced
sufficiently for the Fount Street Area to be represented. The latter area was
mentioned in a previous report (Minutes, 1929-30, page 1193) drawn up
to assist the County Council in the preparation of their proposals to the
Minister in accordance with the provisions of the Housing Act, 1930, Sections
25 and 31.
During the autumn of 1935, the County Council arranged to represent
the Fount Street Area, and for that purpose the entire area was surveyed,
all details required were ascertained, and a map of the official representation
was prepared.
The Borough Council then approached the County Council, and, after
negotiation, agreement was reached to the area being declared by the
Borough Council in place of the County Council. The area was therefore