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The areas not included would be part of Hatch End and the Pinner Green
Housing Estate, a small area north of Eastern Avenue at Rayners Lane,
part of the Hill, Stanmore Village, and part of Edgware and South
Stanmore. This latter area, though, would be served by clinic sessions
held at the Chandos Recreation Ground Sports Pavilion. The needs of
the areas unserved would probably have to be met by continuing the
present practice of holding sessions in Church halls.
The Central clinic is to be erected on the site of Tyneholme, Headstone
Drive. A building providing the services proposed to be held here is an
urgent necessity, and this, of all the clinic buildings, is the one needed
most.
Of the peripheral clinics two, the one at Broadway and the other at
Eimgrove Road, already exist, having been erected by the former Wealdstone
Council. Two others, namely those at Alexandra Avenue and at
Honeypot Lane, are provided by the County Council, being part of the
combined buildings which will provide library facilities as well.
On the clinic site on the L.C.C. Kenton Estate, the Kenton War
Nursery was built. This building will probably be too useful for a while
for there to be any question of its demolition, so alternative arrangements
will be needed to serve this area. This problem too, is urgent, as the
very many sessions required in this neighbourhood are now held in a
building far from ideal for this purpose. There is sufficient demand for
clinic facilities of different kinds to justify the erection in this locality
of a building to be used solely, or at least primarily, for such purposes.
On the other hand in a building intended as a community centre, it might
be possible to ear-mark sufficient accommodation for this purpose, while
leaving free for general use such accommodation as waiting halls, etc.
The needs of Pinner were to have been met by the use of rooms in a
community centre to be erected in Cecil Park. It is understood that more
ambitious proposals are now being considered. It is not contemplated
that there will be sufficient demand for clinic services to warrant the
erection in this area of a building intended primarily as a clinic.
The plan included the erection of a building on the new L.C.C.
Headstone Estate, to be so sited as to meet the needs of the Hatch End
area. Again, it is possible that a building primarily designed for other
needs could offer accommodation suitable and adequate for clinic purposes.
The needs of an area badly requiring facilities will be met by the
erection of a combined building on the site at Bessborough Road Depot,
but unfortunately it seems that this will not be available for a long time,
and there appears to be no alternative site. The building in which the
maternity and child welfare clinic sessions are now held is far from suitable
for the purpose, while the dental clinic occupied full-time, serving this
locality, is even more unsatisfactorily housed.
The remaining site is one at North Harrow. This was acquired in
anticipation of the needs of the area. These, though, cannot be assessed
as yet, until the erection of other buildings serving adjacent areas shows
what demands will remain to be met by a building in this locality.