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The scheme is designed around a central garden, open to the
south, into which all living rooms will face, and comprises 64 flats
and 26 maisonettes in the following proportions:—
2 Bedroom Flats 38
3 „ „ 39
4 „ „ 13
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Each flat will have a private sun balcony and it is intended
to install multi-point gas heaters for hot water supply, and in
addition two drying rooms and 35 perambulator sheds will be
provided for the use of tenants.
Access to the flats will be from Howard Road and provision
is made for a central play space for children away from service
roads.
Acquisition of Individual Houses
By reason of the powers conferred by the Housing Act, to
acquire individual houses and to alter, enlarge, repair or improve
any such houses for the purpose of providing housing accommodation
for the working classes, the Borough Council agreed in principle
to the acquisition of individual houses for the purpose of rehousing
overcrowded families who could not be accommodated in Council
flats owing to the fact that dwellings of five to eight rooms are
required to afford the larger families sufficient living space.
In September, 1936, the Council made Compulsory Purchase
Orders for the acquisition of four unoccupied houses in Grayling
Road. A local inquiry was held by the Minister of Health on the
18th January, 1937, and the Orders were confirmed on the 17th
March, 1937.
Each house contains eight rooms and has a "permitted
number " of 14½ persons under the Housing Act, 1936.
At the close of the year negotiations were still in progress in
regard to the transfer of these properties to the Borough Council.
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