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Housing.
General and Miscellaneous.
It might be appropriate at this juncture to outline
the scheme of housing which has been adopted and
is being undertaken by the Council.
In 1919 the Council purchased, at a cost of £600 per
acre, land to the extent of 20 acres at Village Park,
South Ealing, for the purpose of erecting houses for the
working classes. The site is an ideal one, with an easy
gradient towards the south and east, facilitating planning.
The site is open, being free to the north, east
and south, houses existing only on its western boundary,
and these are of a good working-class, artisan or residential
type. The subsoil consists of gravel to the
depth of many feet, the presence of gravel on the site
effecting a saving in the cost of building.
The Borough Surveyor presented several schemes of
lay-out, and that adopted by the Council provides for the
erection of 245 tenements, 64 being flats. In the scheme
adopted very few have a direct northerly aspect. A
good feature of the lay-out is the provision of two open
spaces, one centrally situated, in extent 2 acres 3 roods
and 28 poles, and one towards the south-east for use
as garden plots, in extent 1 acre 1 rood 3 poles. A better
idea of the arrangement of the houses on the site can
be obtained from the photograph which is reproduced.
The scheme includes six types of cottages and flats
as follows:—
1.—Parlour, living room, scullery, bathroom, and four
bedrooms.
2 and 3.—Parlour, living room, scullery, bathroom and
three bedrooms. (Two types for different aspects).