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HOUSING ACT, 1930.
The Clearance of Unhealthy Areas.
Considerable progress has been made during the year in the
Council's programme for the clearance of unhealthy areas and
houses.
All the houses in the Dutch Yard Area have now been
demolished.
The sites of the Wandsworth Plain, Felsham Road, Union
Street and Tooting Grove Clearance Areas were in process of
being developed by the Council at the end of the year and re-housing
accommodation will be erected after the sites have been cleared.
The developnent of the sites of the Greyhound Square, Barrow
Road and White Square Areas, for which compulsory Purchase
Orders have been approved, will be put in hand as soon as the
negotiations for acquiring all the properties are completed.
Dutch Yard Area, Wandsworth.—This area, which contained
18 houses, was declared by the Council in 1931, and a
Clearance Order was made. The Minister of Health confirmed
the Order after holding a Public Enquiry. Delay occurred in
clearing the Area owing to unforeseen difficulties in providing
alternative accommodation for the occupiers. These difficulties
have now been overcome and all the houses have been demolished
during the year under review. The site has been left with the
owners to develop.
Wandsworth Plain Area, Wandsworth.—This Area was a
large one and included 91 insanitary houses, together with seven
" grey" houses and several other buildings. A Compulsory
Purchase Order was made and confirmed by the Minister of Health
in 1934 after Public Enquiry. The Area is now in process of
development by the Council. This is being carried out in sections
so that as many as possible of the occupiers will be re-housed on
the site and the houses in one section are being demolished and the
new accommodation completed, before the occupiers of adjoining
sections are displaced. During 1935 twenty-nine of the houses
have been demolished and flats are being erected on one section
of the Area.