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Standards and Planning
The overall sizes of houses and flats are briefly:—
houses—2 bedrooms 750/800 sq. ft.
3 bedrooms 900/950 sq. ft. (2 W.C.).
4 bedrooms 1,000/1,175 sq. ft. (2 W.C.)
Aged Persons Dwellings 450/550 sq ft.
flats 1 bedroom 500 sq. ft.
2 bedrooms 700 sq. ft.
3 bedrooms 850 sq. ft.
4 bedrooms 950 sq. ft.
and the sizes of rooms for houses and flats are as follows:—
1st bedroom 135/150 sq. ft.
Other double bedroom 110/120 sq. ft.
Single bedroom 70/80 sq. ft.
Living room 180/220 sq. ft.
Kitchen 90/110 sq. ft.
Internal Planning
The Living Room. This is designed for sitting and dining with French
windows and sun balcony large enough to take a pram. An open fire is
provided for burning smokeless or other solid fuel which is ignited by gas.
Kitchen. The kitchens are large enough to take the necessary equipment—draining
board, sink, second draining board, work slab, cooker.
There is adequate space for a table, and cupboard space for cooking
utensils. Space is also available for a refrigerator and wash boiler and in
most kitchens a solid fuel domestic boiler is provided.
Bedrooms. Are light and airy and of convenient shape, with built-in
wardrobe.
Bathroom and W.C. Are separate except in the one bedroom flats.
Pram Stores. In some schemes these have been incorporated in the
main building, but in the majority they are separate buildings.
Layout of sites. Every effort has been made by the Council to improve
amenities by planning attractive garden layouts and by providing window
and flower boxes. Where space is available children's playgrounds are
being provided, and in addition suitable areas for drying clothes.
Redevelopment. Practically all suitable building sites in the Borough
have been acquired by the Council for development before the end of
1951 and the position in 1952 will be that approx. 80 families will need
to be rehoused to provide 44 new dwellings.
By the end of the year the redevelopment of the Borough was well in
hand. The housing programme, of necessity, had been confined mainly
to areas which suffered extensive war damage or which were due for
reconstruction and this provided an opportunity for replanning these
areas. Almost every housing scheme commenced by the Council since
the end of 1948 has involved the demolition of occupied dwellings.
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