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street being demolished and for alternative facilities by Springfield
Place being provided, and we have referred to the Housing Committee
this question and that of acquiring any other additional
properties adjoining the clearance area which that Committee may
consider necessary for the satisfactory development or user of the
area.
The estimated cost of acquisition, clearance and redevelopment
of the represented area is £100,900, and we are advised by the
Borough Treasurer that, after allowing for the usual outgoings, i.e.,
loan charges, repairs, supervision, etc., and the estimated income
which will be obtained from the Government grant and from rents
(which it is proposed shall be similar to those provisionally approved
by the Council in respect of the Hemans Street Area), the net cost
to the Council will not exceed £1 17s. 6d. per dwelling for 40 years,
i.e., one-half of the statutory rate contribution the remaining half
being contributed by the County Council. The scheme will be
self-supporting after the expiry of the subsidy period.
We recommend—
(a) That the Council, with respect to an area known as the
Fount Street Area, Wandsworth Road, upon consideration of
an official representation, dated the 8th June, 1936, by Ashley
George Gyton Thompson, m.a., m.d., d.p.h., the Medical
Officer of Health for the Borough, being satisfied—
(i) that the dwelling houses in that area are, by reason of
disrepair or sanitary defects, unfit for human habitation
or are, by reason of their bad arrangement or the
narrowness or bad arrangement of the streets,
dangerous or injurious to the health of the inhabitants
of the said area, and that the other buildings in the
said area are for a like reason dangerous or injurious
to the health of the said inhabitants; and
(ii) that the most satisfactory method of dealing with the
conditions in the said area is the demolition of all the
buildings therein.
has caused the said area to be defined and indicated by pink
colour on a map (No. 950) in such manner as to exclude from
the said area any building which is not unfit for human
habitation or dangerous or injurious to health; and also being
satisfied,
(iii) that in so far as suitable accommodation available for
the persons of the working classes who will be displaced
by the clearance of the said area does not already