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4 units, occupy accommodation with a permitted number of three. These
families up to this could not be helped by the Council. There is a greater
chance of their being assisted under the new arrangements decided upon
by the Council for assessing needs according to bedroom deficiency.
New Housing
The total number of new dwellings provided in this district from the
end of the war up to the 31st December, 1958, was 5,505. Of these,
'.,595 were new permanent Council dwellings and 200 were new temporary
dwellings. 2,087 permanent dwellings have been provided by private
enterprise. 3,338 dwellings destroyed by enemy action were rebuilt, and
334 existing houses were converted. At the end of the previous year the
number of permanent Council dwellings provided was 2,482, and the
number of buildings provided by private enterprise 1,885.
In addition 954 family dwelling units were provided in requisitioned
premises. Of these, by the end of the year 774 had been released and
sixty-two had been reduced from two to one unit dwellings, the number
of properties held being 118.,
Further use has been made of the arrangements for the removal of
Harrow families to the New and Expanded Towns. 217 Harrow families
were housed in one of the New or Expanded Towns during the year. By
the end of the year the total number housed was 1,637. Of these, 600
were from the normal waiting list. Most of these removals were to the
New Towns of Hemel Hempstead, Stevenage and Harlow and the Expanded
towns of Bletchley and Swindon. Smaller numbers went to
Welwyn, Hatfield, Basildon, Bracknell and Aylesbury.
In March, the number of new dwellings it was anticipated might be
erected was 327, comprising 72 houses (all at Bushey), 29 bungalows (at
Stonegrove and Woodlands Estate) and 226 flats. The sites for the flats
were Kenton Lane (24), Shaftesbury Circle (16), Lower Road (12), Bushey
(76), Kingsfield Terrace (6), Edgware Golf Course (6), Durham House (7),
Harrow Weald Park (36), Woodlands Estate (11), Brookside Estate (20)
and the Marsh Lane/Rayners Lane site (12).
A conference of the Boroughs and Districts convened by the Middlesex
County Council in March agreed that the County Council should
write to the Minister of Housing and Local Government supporting the
Provision of a New Town in Middlesex under the New Towns Act, 1946.
from the Minister's reply though it was learned that it was not the
Government's intention that the machinery of the New Towns Act
should be invoked to create further New Towns in England and Wales ;
and if a local authority felt a New Town was needed to provide for
over-spill of its population, they should consider building one themselves
Under Section 3 (3) (e) of the Housing Subsidies Act, 1956.
Allocation of New Houses
Waiting List. In the early part of 1958 the Housing Officer reviewed
the housing list which on the 31st January, 1958 numbered 1,356 applicants,
A cheek against the current register of electors disclosed some 477
families were not living at the addresses they were at when they applied to