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Kingsman Street (No. 1) Area - 219-223 (odd) Kingsman Street.
Kingsman Street (No. 2) Area - 205-215 (odd) Kingsman Street.
Kingsman Street (No. 3) Area - 127 and 129 Kingsman Street.
St. Mary's Street Area - 12-24 (even) St. Mary's Street.
Bowling Green Row (No. l) Area - 1-10 (cons.) Bowling Green Row.
Bowling Green Row (No. 2) Area - 124-128 (even) Woolwich Church
Street; 1-11 (odd) Prospect Vale;
Steer's Cottage, Marshall's Grove.
Bowling Green Row (No. 3) Area - 1-6 (cons.) Marshall's Grove
Bowling Green Row (No. 4) Area - 26-28 (cons.) Marshall's Grove.
Included in the above unfit properties are nine business premises
with living accommodation on floors above.
These eight Areas, which comprise 47 dwellings, with occupants
totalling 117 in 50 families, completed the Council's five-year Slum
Clearance programme ended December, 1960.
HOUSING ACT, 1961
This Act confers on local authorities more extensive powers to
deal with houses in multiple occupation, and enables the Ministry to
prescribe a Code of Management for such houses.
A local authority is also given power to require work to be
carried out to make good or safeguard prescribed standards of management,
and to require particular work to be carried out in order to make
such properties more suitable for multi-family occupation.
In particular, a local authority can require essential facilities
to be provided, such as the provision of additional sanitary accommodation,
water supply, and facilities for preparing and cooking food, having
regard to the number of families or households living in the premises.
Fortunately, in Woolwich there are few houses let in multiple
occupation, and no special difficulties have been experienced under
previous legislation.
CERTIFICATES OF UNFITNESS
During the year Certificates of Unfitness were issued in respect
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