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in a block under construction on the Flower House Estate were allocated for use as
a maternity and child welfare centre to serve this estate, and part of the Council's
Bellingham Estate, Lewisham, and enable a centre in a church hall to be given up.
The new centre will be replaced as soon as possible by a permanent building on
a health centre site, and the clinic accommodation in the block of flats will then be
turned into two flats.
Schemes in Preparation
To avoid abortive work in the preparation of schemes which might not receive
the sanction of the Ministry of Health when the time arrived for the Council to apply
for a starting date, the practice was adopted of consulting the Ministry of Health
at an early stage when both the need for new buildings and the scheme plans were
discussed.
At the end of the year the following schemes were under consideration :—
Division 1. Westway, Hammersmith.— A permanent day nursery to replace the
war-time nursery in Australia Road which had to be closed to permit the erection
of a new school on the White City Estate.
Division 2. Peach Street, Paddington.— A permanent day nursery to replace a wartime
day nursery which will have to be closed to permit the erection of a block of
flats.
Division 3. Basire Street, Islington.— A day nursery to replace a war-time day
nursery which will have to be closed when a block of flats is erected.
Division 4. Victorian Grove, Stoke Newington.— An extension of an existing day
nursery.
Ickburgh Road, Hackney.— A large permanent day nursery to replace two wartime
nurseries in requisitioned premises.
Division 5. Sugar Loaf Walk, Bethnal Green.— An extension to an existing day
nursery to permit accommodation rented from University House Settlement to be
given up.
The following schemes had been approved in principle by the Ministry of Health
and the Ministry of Education and plans were approaching the final stages :—
Division 4. Springdale Road Day Nursery, Stoke Newington, planned to enable a day
nursery in requisitioned premises to be closed.
St. John's Rectory Gardens, Hackney, planned to enable a day nursery in Ram's
Episcopal School buildings to be released for educational purposes.
Division 5. Peel Grove, Bethnal Green, a maternity and child welfare centre to provide
more adequate accommodation than had been available in the past in the
single centre in Bethnal Green.
Division 9. 23 Weir Road, Wandsworth.— The conversion of a former civil defence
building into an additional day nursery.
Holiday Home.— The purchase of Roland House, Littlehampton, was approved
with a view to its use by the Council under Section 28 of the National Health Service
Act, 1946, to provide recuperative holidays for 37 children up to 8 years of age.
Child Guidance Centre, 19 Water Lane, Lambeth.— The Ministry of Education
approved the purchase of the former provident dispensary premises in Water Lane
so that a full-time child guidance centre could be established.
Day
Nurseries