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HOUSING.
The survey of housing conditions in
The Avenue area in connection with proposals for
the clearance and redevelopment of this part of
the District was continued during the year. In
March five small clearance areas were declared.
The properties involved were Nos. 29,30,31,35,37;
38,39,41,42,43,44,45 and 46, The Avenue, and Nos.
69,71,73,77,79,81,83,85 and 87 Oakleigh Road South,
a total on twenty-two houses. In the same month
the Council made a compulsory purchase order in
respect of the lands comprised in these clearance
areas and a further eleven adjacent properties.
There were four objections to the compulsory
purchase order and a public local Inquiry was held
in July. The order was subsequently confirmed
by the Minister of Housing and Local Government
with the modification that two of the houses (Nos.
69 and 71 Oakleigh Road South), declared to be
unfit for habitation and in respect of which objections
had been made, were held not to be unfit.
Four houses, i.e., Nos. 1434,1436,1438 and 1440
High Road, N.20., which were subject to Demolition
orders previously made, were pulled down and the
site cleared.
Two houses which had been closed to human habitation
on account of their condition, i.e., Nos. 83
and 126, Cromwell Road, were repaired and improved
and the closing orders were determined.
As a result of action taken by the Department
repairs were effected at 141 dwellings where the
standard of accommodation was found to be unsatisfactory.
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