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IV —HOUSING.
Unhealthy Areas.
During the year the problem of dealing with certain insanitary
areas in the borough continued to receive the attention of the
Council.
Barn Street Area.—Representation under Section 1 of the
Housing Act, 1930, was made by the Medical Officer of Health in
respect of the Barn Street Area to the effect that the houses therein
were either unfit for human habitation or were dangerous to the
health of the inhabitants in the area, and that the most satisfactory
method of dealing with the conditions was the demolition of all the
houses.
The Barn Street Area comprised the houses as set out below :—-
Persons
Designation. displaced.
Lordship Road, Nos. 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17 and 19 43
Lordship Terrace, Nos. 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21,
23 and 25 53
Barn Street, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13,
14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 65
Edwards Lane, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 35
196
It was ascertained that the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, who
are the freeholders of the Barn Street property, would raise no
objection to a clearance order and that they proposed to plan a
rebuilding scheme in the Barn Street Area, which scheme was to
include the closing of Barn Street, subject, inter alia, to the
co-operation of this Council in rehousing the present tenants in
the area.
The Council declared this area to be a clearance area in June
and the Order was duly confirmed by the Minister of Health in July.