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SECTION A.
STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE AREA.
Area (acres) 5,161 (Census, 193123,646
Population (Mid-year,. 1936) Registrar-General's
Estimate: Working Population Figure 34,080
Present estimated population at 4 persons per
house 39,392
Number of inhabited houses end of 1936 9,848
Rateable value £240,555
Sum represented by a penny rate Gross £1,002
Net (Est.) £892
SOCIAL CONDITIONS.
The Urban District of Hayes and Harlington comprises the
parishes of Hayes, Harlington and that portion of Cranford
to the west of the River Crane. The height above sea-level
varies from 182 feet at the top of Charville Lane to 70 feet at the
point below the bridge where the Bath Road crosses the Crane.
Building development is advancing with great rapidity and it
would appear that if the present rate of progress continues it
cannot be long before the district is completely urbanized. The
Council on that account is taking steps to ensure that certain
pieces of land shall be added to the already existing open spaces.
These at present are 345 acres in extent but it is hoped to increase
this amount very considerably in the near future.
Unemployment is small in the district, due, no doubt, to the
large number of factories established here, and to its proximity
to London. The population has, for the same reason, changed
from one which was purely agricultural and horticultural at the
beginning of the present century to an almost entirely industrial
one.
The houses in Hayes and Harlington are nearly all of modern
construction and no slum areas exist, although from time to
time old cottages are condemned as unfit for human habitation.
There is a considerable number of Council houses in the town
and these have been laid out with care and due regard to the
density per acre. These housing estates compare very favourably
with some other estates which have been developed since the
war and would appear to be the best solution to the problem
of housing the industrial population. There is a recent tendency
to building flats which appears to be undesirable in a district of
this kind, where sites for building have not yet reached a
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