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On 24th March, 1927, a Memorial was submitted to the Council
on behalf of residents of the Kilburn Ward, urging the necessity of
providing housing accommodation to relieve the conditions prevailing
in that area. Letters were also received from various Guilds and
Associations with regard to the Sherriff Road housing site, these all
received due attention, and the utilisation of this site was reconsidered.
The Housing Committee of the Borough Council approached the
Chairman of the County Council Housing Committeee, who received
a Deputation from the Borough Council to discuss the matter of the
Sherriff Road Flats. Subsequently, a letter was received from him
stating that the proposed scheme was considered by the County Council
to be too costly, and suggesting the abandonment of the scheme, and,
as an alternative, an arrangement for the allocation of 100 houses on
the Wormholt Estate adjoining the White City, or the Watling Estate
at Hendon, the Borough Council to pay to the County Council for each
house so allocated such fixed annual sum, not exceeding £7, as may
be determined by the County Council when the houses are completed,
for a period of not less than 20 years nor more than 40 years. After
reviewing the whole of the circumstances very carefully and earnestly,
the Housing Committee formed the opinion that the proposed Sherriff
Road Housing Scheme should be abandoned, and this course was agreed
to by the Council at its meeting on 30th June, 1927.
The Borough Council at its meeting on the 21st July 1927,
received a report from the Housing Committee, stating that, with regard
to the proposed allocation to the Borough Council of 100 houses, the
Housing Committee of the London County Council would be prepared
to recommend that Council to enter into an agreement under Section
14 of the Housing (Financial Provisions) Act, 1924, for allocating to
the Borough Council for its special needs 100 houses at the Wormholt
Estate, Hammersmith (adjoining the White City grounds and in course
of development), the agreement to be subject to the condition that each
of the houses shall qualify, with the approval of the Minister of Health,
for State grant under the Act of 1924. It was also reported, that:—
(a) The decision with regard to the suitability, or otherwise, of
persons nominated by the Borough Council for tenancies of houses
under the agreement would rest with the County Council: (b) The
agreement with the Borough Council would be for the allocation of
houses at Wormholt Estate, but, no doubt, it would be possible, under
departmental arrangements outside the agreement, for a proportion
(say about 1 in every 4) of the tenants to be accommodated at Watling
Estate, and (c) the County Council would remain entirely responsible
for repairs, etc., to the houses.