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During the year over 841 inspections and 2,893 re-inspections of basement premises were made,
also 263 inspections and 1,855 re-inspections of mews dwellings.
Town Planning.
A condition of the London County Council's consent to the conversion and altering of premises
is that the Borough Council must be satisfied as to the proposed user of basement rooms. During
the year the London County Council referred to the Borough Council for examination a large number
of applications of this nature, and as a result of the Council's observations permission was refused
for certain basement rooms to be used for human habitation where the rooms did not conform to
the statutes and regulations in force in the Borough.
Compulsory Repairs.
No notices were served during the year under Section 9 of the Housing Act, 1936.
Four hundred and twelve communications were however sent to owners drawing attention to defects
liable to be dealt with under this Section. In three hundred and fifty-nine instances these communications
resulted in the defects being remedied.

Housing on London County Council Estates.
During the year 541 applications for housing accommodation were sent forward to the Connty
Council, with a request that the applications be given preferential consideration in the allocation
of accommodation on grounds of overcrowding, unhealthy conditions, medical and special hardship.
Of this number 111 were offered, and accepted, suitable vacancies. A further 12 families were housed
on applications submitted direct to the County Council.
Since April, 1920, 1,234 Paddington families have secured accommodation on London County
Council estates on applications submitted by the Borough Council, and since September, 1930,
533 other families have been re-housed as a result of direct application to the County Council.
Borough Council Accommodation on London County Council Estates.
Agreements are in force between the Borough Council and the County Council whereby houses
and flats are provided on County Council Estates for the re-housing of Paddington families. Under
these agreements the Borough Council has a right to nominate the ingoing tenants, and in the case
of the 1934 Agreement should a house or flat become vacant on an outlying estate for which no tenant
is available the nomination can be transferred to a local estate, such as Wormholt or Old Oak,
Hammersmith, to suit the convenience of those applicants who desire to live near the Borough.
Three hundred and eighty-six houses and flats have been provided to date as set out below.
This number, however, is being augmented from month to month as displacements from unfit
basements and clearance areas occur.