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88 Report of the Medical Officer of Health for 1937.
Tooting Grove No. 1 Area.
This Area, comprising 21 insanitary houses and two
"coloured grey" was Declared in May, 1935, and the houses were
demolished during 1936, the Council having decided to develop
the site.
Early in 1937 it was decided to acquire and demolish a further
11 houses which were adjacent to the site of the Clearance Area,
and to add this land to the development scheme, which provides
for a total of 114 flats in three-storey blocks. 72 of the flats have
now been completed and the remaining 42 are in course of erection.
Greyhound Square Area, Streatham.
Barrow Road Area, Streatham.
These Areas, which are close together, have now been cleared,
and the major portion of the combined sites is being developed
by the Council.
Greyhound Square Area contained 29 insanitary houses, and
one "coloured grey," and the Barrow Road Area consisted of 11
insanitary houses. All these houses have now been demolished.
The portion of land which was left to the owners to develop
was that on which three of the houses in the Barrow Road Area
were situated. It was excluded from the Council's Scheme as it
was separated by a road from the rest of the combined site of the
two Areas.
It is proposed to erect 42 flats and 8 shops on the site, the
buildings being three storeys in height. 28 of the flats have been
completed.
White Square, Clapham.
This site, which is 4.32 acres in extent, included five insanitary
Areas which were Declared in January, 1935. There were 100
insanitary houses in the five Areas, and 66 houses, "coloured
grey," were added to make the site suitable for re-development
by the Council. 52 of the houses have been demolished, and the
re-development of the site, which provides for the erection of 181
flats and six shops, is well in hand.