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the south-west side partly by branch line of British Railways (London
Midland Region) and partly by industrial premises not included in the
Compulsory Purchase Order, on the south-east side by the rear boundaries
of properties in Beaumont Road (even numbers), and on the north-east side
mainly by the rear boundaries of properties in High Road.
Altogether there are 115 dwelling houses (including nine dwellinghouses
which are used partly for business purposes). The total population
of the 115 unfit houses included in the clearance areas consists of 136
families, comprising 374-persons. The average number of persons per house
is 3.3. Statutory overcrowding exists at only two houses.
CARLISLE ROAD AREA
The area is situated on the north-westerly side of Carlisle Road,
and contains ten dwelling houses, nine being in Carlisle Road and one in
Shaftesbury Road. Three properties are used partly for business purposes.
The population consistsof 11 families, comprising 23 persons.The average
number of persons per house is 2.3.
Type and Description of Dwelling Houses
The majority of the houses in the areas are situated in terraces and
are of the two-storey type with single or two-storey back additions. All
houses have through ventilation and yard space at rear. Frontages vary
from lift, to 28ft. 9ins. Ten houses have no forecourts. The construction
is traditional - brick walls, slated or tiled pitched or central valley
gutter roofs, timber floors (with the exception of some scullery floors
which are of concrete) and joinery work, plaster walls and ceilings.
W.C.*s are situated externally, except at six houses where the W.C.'s are
entered from the sculleries. Internal accommodation varies from five
rooms, including scullery, to nine rooms. Eight houses have bathrooms,
two of which are converted sculleries and three temporary outbuildings.
Mains water supply is provided over scullery sinks. Twenty-seven houses
have no internal halls or passages, so that living-rooms are intercommunicating,
and entered direct from the street or forecourt. At 35
houses staircases rise from living-rooms or sculleries.
Principal Grounus of Unfitness for Habitation
Following is a summary of the principal grounds for being satisfied
that the houses coloured pink on the map are unfit for habitation. The
majority of the under-mentioned defects exist in varying degrees at all
houses.
Stability. (See Plates Nos.3 and 8)
Evidence or uneven settlement - brickwork of rear and front elevations
bulged and/or fractured out of plumb and alignment, brickwork
courses out of level, window and door openings out of square, sills
fractured, roofs sagging, floors out of level, excessive vibration in
floors.
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