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Housing Act, 1936.
The Clearance of Insanitary Houses
The Council's programme for the clearance of unhealthy
areas and the demolition of insanitary houses has made good progress
during the year.
The sites of several insanitary areas are in process of being
re-developed by the Council, and the new estates being erected
on the sites of the Wandsworth Plain, Felsham Road, Tooting
Grove No. 1 and Greyhound Square Areas are approaching completion.
The development of the White Square site is well in hand.
Salvador No. 2 Area has been cleared, and the clearance of
four other Areas is in progress.
A number of Demolition Orders and Closing Orders have also
been made.
Wandsworth Plain Area, Wandsworth.
The development of this Area has made rapid progress
during the year and only 10 of the 91 insanitary houses have still
to be demolished. Two sections of the site have been developed
by the Council and 73 flats have been erected. These are occupied
mainly by families displaced from other houses in the Area.
The Council has approved a scheme prepared by the architect,
Mr. G. Leonard Elkington, F.R.I.B.A., for the development of the
remaining section of the site. This scheme provides for the erection
of 76 flats in three blocks, each four storeys in height, comprising
eight bed-sitting room ground floor flats for the accommodation
of aged persons, 32 three-roomed flats, 28 four-roomed flats and
eight five-roomed flats.
Felsham Road Area, Putney.
This Area, which contained 59 insanitary houses and two
dwelling-houses "coloured grey," has now been cleared and is in
process of re-development by the Council. It is proposed to erect
88 flats in four-storeyed blocks on the site. 56 of these were completed
and in occupation by the end of the year.