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are in another block. The entrance to the Co-operative Factory
is between the two blocks.
Xos. 1, 2, 3 and 4 are three-storeyed houses, have no back
yard, but have windows which overlook the Co-operative Factory.
One of the houses was vacant.
Nos. 7, 8, 9, 9a and 10 are all through houses. The back
yards are small, but each house has its own sanitary convenience
situated at the rear of the house.
Nelson Place consists of 16 houses, 8 on each side of the
road. Nelson Place is really a street„ 36 ft. wide, and all the
houses front on the roadway. All the houses have back yards,
each house has sanitary conveniences. The house.s are capable
of being made into very satisfactory residences.
Narrow Street consists of 9 houses. The houses are old
and not in a very good state of repair. All the closets are situated
together in the back at some distance from the houses. These
houses can be rendered fit for human habitation, but there is some
doubt as to the expense, having regard to the cost of the works
necessary and the value which it is estimated that the dwelling
houses will have when the works are completed. The condition
of the houses will be more fully described under individual houses.
Rectory Road. With the exception of the Rectory and the
Central Garage, there are no dwelling houses in Rectory Road.
East Row consist's of 6 houses fronting the green which
slopes down from Horn Lane to East Row. 5 of the houses
are in a row, and the 6th is a detached house, built at a more
recent date than the others.
All the houses in East Row are old, but, with one exception,
have been kept in good condition. The wall along the back of
some of the houses has had to be rebuilt.
All the houses are through houses, with a small yard at the
back.
Of the total number of house.s in the Steyne, there are only
4 which cannot reasonably be rendered fit for human habitation.
There are other houses which at the present time are in a poor
condition, but these can be rendered fit at a reasonable expense.
It will be seen that the area does not come within the category
of a Clearance Area. There is, of course, the question of whether
the Steyne should be designated an Improvement Area, and it
will be desirable to examine the clauses which define Improvement
Areas.
Improvement Areas.
This term appears for the first time in an Act of Parliament.
An Improvement Area is really an area which is not quite so bad
as a Clearance Area. In a Clearance Area all the houses must
be unfit for human habitation, but in an Improvement Area, the
houses are not all so far gone and the ge.neral conditions are not