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Glyndon Road; 86-92 (even) and 100, 122 and 124 Robert Street;
83-101 (odd), 105 and 107 Villas Road.
No. 4 Area: 12 and 14, Glyndon Road.
There are 100 dwelling houses in the above mentioned four areas.
In addition there are approximately 60 properties on adjoining land
which are not considered representable but which it is necessary for
the Council to acquire in order to obtain a cleared site of convenient
shape and dimensions for the satisfactory redevelopment of
these clearance areas. These added lands include, in addition to
dwellinghouses,a number of retail shops, a warehouse, coal yard,
doctor's surgery and a public house.
The four clearance areas have a gross area of approximately
4.4 acres and the adjoining land comprises nearly 3 acres. There
are approximately 120 families living in dwellings in the four
areas, and 68 families in dwellings in the "added" land.
The Council propose to redevelop this area at a density of about
100 persons per acre. This development will constitute the first
stage of the Glyndon Area Scheme.
Kingsman Street (Nos. 1 and 2) Areas. In addition to the
representation of the abovementioned areas, I also represented that
the houses 82-96 (even) and 102-114 (even) Kingsman Street were
unfit for habitation and should be dealt with by the Council as
Clearance Areas. These properties are now in the Council's ownership.
SLIM CLEARANCE - COMPENSATION
During the year the Government passed the Slum Clearance
(Compensation) Act in order to relieve hardship among owner-occupiers
or tenants of certain premises declared unfit by the local authority.
The object of the Act was not to alter the long-established principle
that owners of slum dwellings should apart from payments for good
maintenance, receive compensation beyond the value of the site, but
rather to relieve acute hardship in a limited number of cases,
particularly where the owners had in recent years been driven by
extreme housing shortage to buy unsound and sub-standard dwellings
to live in themselves.
HOUSING PROGRESS
The number of dwellings built in the Borough of Woolwich during
the year 1956 may be summarised as follows:-
35