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Clearance Areas. Housing Acts 1936-1949*
In 1938, seventeen clearance areas (involving ninetytwo
properties) were scheduled for demolition0 These areas
were confirmed by the Ministry of Health in the same year
and had it not been for the intervention of World War II
and the consequent acute short age of housing accommodation
they undoubtedly would have been cleared and other areas
dealt with in the same way.
However, by the end of tte year under review, there
remained only nine of these areas, embracing forty-three
premiseso Five areas, involving twenty-seven premises
have become the property o f the Council by Compulsory Purchase
Orders and the remaining four, still in private
ownership, embrace the comparatively small number of sixteen
premises.
It is hoped that the day is not far distant when the
immediate housing needs of the Urban district population
as a whole are satisfied, and the department can once
more devote its energies to the condemnation of properties
which are by reason of disrepair or sanitary defects unfit
for human habitation®
Re-Hous I ng
I am indebted to the Housing Manager for the following
statistics of re°housing carried out by the Lpcal
Authority: -
Prior to During Total as at
1952 1952 DeCo. 1952
1.(a) No, of permanent
dwellings built by Local
Authority 1152 290 1442
(b) Noo of prefabricated
dwellings built by Local
Authority 319 - 319
(c) No, of dwellings requisitioned
by Local
Authority 227 - 195
2.(a) No. of families occupying
1 ( a) - 1442*
(b) No. of families occupying
1 (b) - 319