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HOUSING ACT, 1930.
The Clearance of Insanitary Houses.
Considerable progress has been made during the year in the
programme for the clearance of unhealthy areas and the demolition
of insanitary houses.
The development of the Union Street Area, Clapham, has
been completed. The sites of the following Clearance Areas are
still in process of being developed—Wandsworth Plain, Felsham
Road and Tooting Grove No. 1 Area. Building operations are now
well in hand on the site of the Greyhound Lane and Barrow Road
Areas and the development of the site of the White Square Areas
will be commenced shortly.
Union Street Area, Clapham.
The development of the site of this Area by the Council has
now been completed. Thirty-two flats have been erected and
they are now occupied by families from other insanitary areas in
the neighbourhood.
Wandsworth Plain Area, Wandsworth.
By the end of the year 51 of the 91 insanitary houses in this
Area had been demolished and considerable progress has been made
by the Council in the re-development of the Area. 25 flats have
been completed on a portion of the site and these are now occupied
mainly by families from other houses in the Area which are to be
demolished. Another section of the Area is being developed at the
present time and a further 48 flats are being erected.
Felsham Road Area, Putney.
Satisfactory progress is being made with the development
of this Area by the Council. 30 of the 59 insanitary houses which
it contained have now been demolished and by the end of the year
two blocks of flats, comprising 24 dwellings, were completed.
Tooting Grove No. 1 Area.
The 21 insanitary houses in this Area have all been demolished
and good progress has been made with the development of the