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Council these sites, listed below, were included in the County Development Plan, 1951,
submitted to the Minister of Housing and Local Government:—
Walmer Road, Threshers Place, Kensington.
Southend Lane, Lewisham.
10, St. Alban's Villas, St. Pancras.
St. Philip's Church and Vicarage, Richmond Road, Hackney.
Burney Street, Greenwich.
21, Weir Road, Wandsworth.
Six other sites in areas of comprehensive development were included in the
Development Plan, 1951.
Meetings were held with officers of the Executive Council to discuss problems
relating to the selection and reservation of sites for health centres and the suitability
of sites to be submitted to the Executive Council for approval.
In addition to the six designated sites referred to above, the Executive Council
agreed, during the year, to the Council's proposals for the use of sixteen sites for
health centres.
The Local Medical Committee again asked general practitioners in London
whether they desired to undertake practice in buildings provided by the Council as
health centres and nine groups of doctors expressed a wish to do so. No premises
suitable for immediate conversion for group practice, however, became available during
the year.
Group
practices
The proposal mentioned in my report for 1950 to convert the Hampstead
Health Institute to provide accommodation for a group of five doctors was not
approved by the Minister of Health on the ground that the area was already
adequately supplied with doctors and doctors' surgeries.
Transfer of premises under the National Health Service Act, 1946
Negotiations were continued with the Minister of Health and metropolitan
borough councils concerning the future ownership and allocation of buildings which,
prior to 5th July, 1948, had not been used entirely for functions assumed under the
Act by one authority. The Minister agreed in principle to a settlement for the transfer
of property between the Council and the Minister, in accordance with the details set
out below. Detailed settlements with the appropriate Regional Hospital Boards
were still being negotiated by the Council's Director of Housing and Valuer at the
end of the year.
(1) Properties to be conveyed by the Minister of Health to the Council.
(i) Norivood Children's Hospital, Lambeth.—Home for old people.
(ii) New Cross Hospital, Deptford.—A strip of land required for improvement
of adjoining ambulance station.
(iii) South Western Hospital, Lambeth.—Small portions of land required for
improvement of adjoining ambulance station.
(iv) " Southlands," Battersea.—Minister's apportionable interest in a
former chest clinic.
(v) Eltham Hill Health Centre, Woolwich.—Minister's apportionable interest
in property used by the Council for health purposes.
(2) Properties to be conveyed by the Minister of Health to the Council at some future
date, when the existing users are able to vacate.
(i) Finsbury Health Centre, Finsbury.—The Minister will convey his
apportionable interest to the Council to enable a general practitioner health
centre to be established.
(ii) Parsons Green Maternity Hospital, Fulham.—The Minister will convoy
his apportionable interest to the Council to enable the premises to be converted
into a health centre.