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Temporary Housing Accommodation
Priority is being given to the clearance of the temporary
prefabricated bungalows on the Highfield Estate and this will be
continued during 1962. Of the original total of 235 prefabricated
bungalows, there were 100 remaining at the end of 1961. The
clearance of this temporary housing estate will enable the erection
of over 600 new permanent houses and flats.
Caravans
To assist in dealing with what was at one stage a serious
problem with unauthorised caravan sites in Romford, the Broxhill
Caravan Site accommodating 66 caravans was acquired in 1958.
The turnover of vacancies on this site was originally used to enable
the clearance of some 90 caravans on an unauthorised site in
Oldchurch Road. The Council purchased this latter site and
it is now being developed as a park. Broxhill Site is also being
used to clear caravans from The Trees Caravan Site, Colchester
Road, which is also an unauthorised site.
New Housing
During 1961 the Council have completed the erection of their
first multi-storey flats. These are comprised in two eleven-storey
blocks on the Waterloo Road Estate. Waterloo Road Estate is,
in fact, an area of some 12 acres from which approximately 230
families were rehoused to enable the removal of slum dwellings.
Future Houses
Future housing is limited to some extent by the shortage
of building land and the Council's building programme which has
hitherto been at an average of nearly 250 new dwellings a year, is
slowing down because of this factor. The number of new
dwellings completed during 1961 was 207 and the number
anticipated during 1962 will probably be considerably less than
this.
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