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Arrangements were also made for the undermentioned schemes, which no longer
required individual approval by the Minister to be dealt with in the year 1955.56 :
Division Premises Work involved
2 283a Harrow Road, Paddington .. Extension of premises to provide additional
accommodation for maternity and child
welfare, school treatment, and office purposes
2 Daleham Gardens, Hampstead Erection of building as a combined maternity
and child welfare and school treatment
centre
2 Hampstead Health Institute, Dynham Adaptation of existing premises to provide
Road accommodation for maternity and child
welfare centre
5 Rochelle Street School, Bethnal Green . . Adaptation of building to provide maternity
and child welfare centre
7 Queen's Road centre, Camberwell .. Second stage works of adaptation, including
provision of hot water and heating systems
. Shoreditch ambulance station . . . . Improvements to entrance of existing building
. Cornwall Avenue, Bethnal Green .. Adaptation of premises as occupation centre
The following projects requiring the approval of the Minister were proposed for Projects for
inclusion in the building programme for the year 1956.57 : 1956.57
Division Premises Works required
1 Walmer Road, Threshers Place, Ken. Erection of day nursery to form ultimately a
sington maternity and child welfare centre as the
first instalment of a comprehensive health
centre
6 Abbey Wood, Woolwich Erection of maternity and child welfare and
school treatment centre as first instalment of
a comprehensive health centre to serve new
housing estate
. Highlever Road, Kensington Erection of occupation centre to replace
unsatisfactory temporary accommodation
and provide additional places
. Iceni Sports Ground, Ickburgh Road, do.
Hackney
Shaftesbury School, Perry Rise, Lewisham do.
Day nurseries
The continued gradual diminution in the demand for day nursery places and the strict
application of a priority system of admission enabled the day nursery service to be
maintained without serious difficulty, despite the closure of four nurseries, but the
extent to which the service depended on the use of premises held on insecure tenure or
under requisitioning powers due to expire in December, 1957 continued to give rise
for concern. The level at which the service would need to be maintained to meet the
anticipated future demand for places was accordingly reviewed to enable steps to be
taken, where necessary, to secure the continued availability of requisitioned nurseries
and other premises held on insecure tenure by means of acquisition or long.term leases.
Division 6—Amersham Road Day Nursery, Deptford—Adaptations to provide additional Works
accommodation were completed to permit the closure of Evelyn Street day nursery complete
which was demolished.
Division 1—St. James' Day Nursery, Maxwell Road, Fulham—The tenancy of these premises Nurseries
was terminated by the freeholders and the nursery closed. No replacement was available closed
but the children displaced were accommodated in neighbouring nurseries.
Division 4—Sylvester Day Nursery, Sylvester Path, Hackney—This day nursery, which was
accommodated in unsatisfactory requisitioned premises, was closed without replacement.
Arrangements were made for the children to be transferred to other nurseries in the
locality.