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HEALTH SERVICE PREMISES
Building programme
the health committee approved a five.year capital building programme for the Five.year
building
period 1954.59, which had been prepared with the object of securing that future proposed programme
building works should be carried out, as far as practicable, in order of urgency and pnased 1954.59
so that they might become available at the time they were required.
Advice had previously been received from the Minister of Health that the need for
economy continued to limit the amount of capital building expenditure which could
be authorised each year, and that he was unable, for the present, to sanction the provision
of new maternity and child welfare centres except in those areas, such as new housing
estates, where no clinic services existed at all. In the light of this advice it was necessary
to include in the five.year building programme only those projects having the highest
priority and to defer for the time being schemes for replacement maternity and child
welfare centres. These deferred schemes were included in a reserve list of works from
which the most urgent could be brought forward if changed circumstances permitted.
During the year the procedure introduced in 1950 whereby the Council submits an Submission of
annual
annual capital building programme to the Minister of Health with a view to obtaining building
his approval of schemes to be carried out during the following financial year, was programmes
modified. Under the revised procedure particulars of both the capital building programme
for the year 1955.56 and the projects proposed for the year 1956.57 were submitted to
the Minister and as starting dates for building works were no longer required, only
schemes costing more than 10,000 were required to be included.
The programme for 1955.56 included two new schemes and six other projects
brought forward from earlier programmes. In addition, it was proposed to carry out
during 1955.56 seven other schemes which no longer required individual approval by
the Minister. Five schemes requiring his sanction were proposed for the year 1956.57,
including one previously included in the programme for 1954.55.
Particulars of outstanding schemes which had previously been submitted to the
Minister for approval, and of projects included in the programmes for the years 1955.56
and 1956.57 are given below :
Division 3—Charles Lamb (Popham Road) School, Islington—Adaptation as a maternity Scheme
and child welfare and school treatment centre. The adapted premises were intended to abandoned
replace a centre in a decontamination shelter in Tibberton Square but as other premises
in Clephane Road (formerly used as a day nursery) became available, the scheme was
abandoned.
The following schemes for replacement maternity and child welfare centres included Schemes
in earlier programmes were excluded from the five.year building programme, 1954.59 :
Division Premises Work involved
1 129 Fulham Palace Road Adaptation
3 Drayton Hall, Islington Extension of maternity and child welfare
facilities and addition of school treatment
centre
6 Bumey Street, Greenwich New building
Division 1—Westway, Hammersmith—Day Nursery—This scheme was held in abeyance Scheme in
owing to a diminishing need for day nursery places. abeyance
Division Premises Service Work involved Schemes
3 Basire Street (Coleman Fields), Day nursery New Building deferred until
Islington later in five
. South Eastern ambulance station General ambulance Extension Year
station programme
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