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In the additional lands outside the Clearance Areas there are 54 houses, and
the displacement of 221 additional persons is involved. In the remaining two areas
are two unoccupied houses and one single house respectively, and these are included
in the properties which the Council decided to acquire under Part III of the Housing
Act, 1935.
With a view to enlarging the site available for redevelopment and for the purpose
of linking up the areas to be dealt with, the County Council propose to acquire compulsorily,
two additional sites situated in Princes Road. The houses in these sites
are occupied by 156 persons. Additional adjoining land, approximately 2.8 acres,
is being acquired by the County Council under a compulsory Purchase Order made
earlier in the year.
(c) Parkdale Road Area.—On the 9th January, 1936, Dr. J. Bruce Low, a medical
officer of health appointed by the London County Council for the purpose of carrying
into effect Part I of the Housing Act, 1935, made an official representation with
respect to an area containing eight dwelling houses. The houses in question are
known as Nos. 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37, 39, and 41 Parkdale Road. The number of
occupants was 22.
The London County Council made a Clearance Order known as the London
County Council (Parkdale Road, Woolwich) Clearance Order on the 28th May,
1936 ; a Ministry of Health Inquiry was held on the 29th July, and the Order was
confirmed without modification by the Minister on the 16th October, 1936. At the
end of the year none of the houses had been vacated.
The clearance area programme is not yet completed. There are many other
small areas which will require to be dealt with by the Borough Council as soon as
rehousing can be provided. Surveys of other large areas have been carried out by
officers of the London County Council during the year. These, no doubt, will be
dealt with by that body in due course.
Hutments.—In my Annual Report for 1934, I reported on an agreed threeparty
scheme between the owners of certain hutments, the London County Council
and the Council, for the rehousing of the tenants of Eltham hutments and for the
demolition of the hutments.
The first of the dwellings were ready for occupation on the 1st September of
that year, and at the end of 1936, the total number of hutment families so rehoused
was 737.