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Defence Regulation 68 C.A. (Use of living accommodation
for business -purposes).
73 investigations of premises were made for possible
contravention of this Regulation regarding "Change of User",
•which involved 140 visits by the inspectors.
Preferential Housing on Health Grounds.
Of the 119 cases investigated, 59 recommended for
rehousing : 7 to the London County Council and 52 to the
Borough Cornell.
Applications for Rehousing.
At the end of the year, there were 4,550 applications
for rehousing on the Housing Manager's register (an Increase
of 900 over 1950), including 219 tenants of Council dwellings
and 503 licencees of requisitioned premises.
Temporary Hutments.
324 hutments owned by the Borough Council remained at
the end of the year. 19 were recommended for demolition
because of structural deterioration.
Requisitioned Properties.
The number of dwellings under requisition by the Borough
Council at the end of the year was 1,886, involving 2,613
lettings, and 7 dwellings were recommended to the Housing
Manager f.or de-reculsitioning for. various reasons, and 20
basement flats (35 rooms) which did not comply with the
regulations were recommended for closure
New Housing.
This year saw the commencement of the erection of the
second portion of the Borough Council's Bancroft Estate,
The London County Council's Ocean Estate, too, began to
take shape and the first 8-storey block of flats in the
Borough was completed. Heretofore the Borough has had only
5-storey flats, and this new feature of Stepney life will
be a matter of some interest as to its success or otherwise.
Another innovation was the construction of a 2-storey
building on.this Estate, comprising a communal laundry on
the ground floor and a community hall above.
During the year 378 new dwellings were completed in the
Borough, 80 flats and 35 houses by the Borough Council and
263 flats by the London County Council, At the end of the
year, new permanent dwe]lings completed in the Borough since