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accommodation would be needed for the families from the 36 houses in
respect of which preliminary action under the Housing Act had already
been taken. It could be expected that similar numbers of complaints
would continue to be received resulting ultimately in the making of a
number of Demolition or Closing Orders. While there might be hope of
obtaining a surplus of housing units on some of the sites the subject of
confirmed Clearance Orders, not many of the sites of these houses dealt
with by way of individual Orders would be suitable as sites for new
Council houses. The concern of the Public Health Committee therefore
was that there was piling up this number of houses from which the
occupants would have to be rehoused, numbers far greater than any
surplus there would be on developing the sites of confirmed Clearance
Orders, and yet it was only too apparent that the Council would, because
of the paucity of sites, in future be in a position to build only small numbers
of new houses at any time.
Review of the Council's Housing Situation
When the Housing Management Sub-committee met for its annual
review of the housing situation, they were faced not only with the
smaller numbers of houses they would have to allocate but also with the
need to make some provision for the rehousing of those in some of the
houses included in the Northolt Road clearance areas so as to facilitate
the phasing of the Council's proposed redevelopment in this year.
The Sub-committee met on the 17th April, 1956. At that time the
total number of new dwellings anticipated during the period ended 28th
February, 1958, was 568 as against a figure of 609 at the 1955 review.
This 568 included 96 new aged persons dwellings. 194 new family
dwellings had been built between the 28th February, 1955, and the 17th
May, 1956. This reduced the number of new dwellings likely to become
available to 278. 34 of these are the balance of the numbers originally
allocated for the overspill from the Poets Corner area. Of the 244 new
family dwellings left, 134 had already been earmarked to meet the outstanding
commitments approved under the 1955 allocation. That left
only 110 to be considered.
The Committee recommended that these be provisionally allocated:
(i) Tuberculosis Cases (maintaining the agreed one-tenth
allocation of all new dwellings becoming available)... "
(ii) Eviction case outstanding
(iii) Overcrowded families
(iv) Families to be rehoused from individual insanitary
dwellings (other than those in Poets Corner) ••• 20
(v) Hardship Cases 26
(vi) Licensees from further requisitioned premises ••• ~"
(vii) Housing list cases becoming eligible under the " points
scheme ''
(viii) Miscellaneous • ■
(ix) Allocation for rehousing families, in due course, from
the Northolt Road Clearance Areas to facilitate the
phasing of redevelopment ... ••• _J_
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