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SECTION C
HOUSING
The major part of the work of the District Sanitary Inspectors is
concerned with insanitary conditions and housing defects and the action taken is
summarised below, The number of new houses and flats completed is also given.
New housing in Poplar has been almost entirely confined to redevelopment of
areas as opposed to the infilling with single houses and the number completed
during 1953 is the result of some years of work including planning, acquisition
and in some cases demolition before the erection could be commenced. The number
of suitable areas for redevelopment is now small and the rate of building must
slow down very considerably during the next few years.
Details of new housing accommodation completed in the Borough during 1953
are as follows -
Poplar Borough Council 235 dwellings
London County Council
Coventry Cross Estate 76 dwellings
Devons Estate 112 dwellings
The number of families living in property owned or managed by the Borough
Council at 5th July, 1953, was as follows: -