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enterprise. 338 dwellings destroyed by enemy action were rebuilt and
334 exisiting houses were converted. At the end of the previous year, the
number of permanent Council dwellings provided was 2,717 and the
number of buildings provided by private enterprise 2,426.
In addition, 954 dwelling units were provided in requisitioned
premises. By the end of 1959 all but forty-four of these premises had been
released. All throughout the country were to be freed by the 31st March,
I960. To facilitate the release of local houses, thirty-one suitable requisitioned
properties and thirty-four substituted properties were acquired by
the Council. The Minister's sanction was obtained to the temporary
retention of three houses because of special difficulties involved.
Further use was made during the year of the arrangements for the
removal of Harrow families to the New or Expanded Towns, 232 Harrow
families being housed. By the end of the year, the total number of families
who had been housed under these arrangements was 2,128, of which 705
were from the normal housing list. Most of these removals were to the
New Towns of Hemel Hempstead, Stevenage, Harlow, Welwyn and
Hatfield and the Expanded Towns of Swindon and Bletchley. Smaller
numbers went to Basildon, Bracknell, Crawley, Aylesbury and Thetford.
New Housing Programme
At their meeting on the 18th February, the Housing Committee
accepted tenders for the construction of roads, sewers, etc. and the erection
of forty-six dwellings in four-storey blocks at Northolt Road, and
fifty-two such dwellings and twenty-two garages at Rayners Lane (Phase
two Stage three).
The Housing Committee at their meeting on the 31st March, approved
the purchase of Nos. 115 to 131 Northolt Road, houses included in the
Northolt Road (No. 2 Area) Compulsory Purchase Order, which are
required in connection with other adjoining property already in the
Council's ownership to enable the first phase of the development of
Northolt Road to be undertaken.
At the same meeting tenders were accepted for the erection of twentytour
three-bedroom houses on the north side of Coles Crescent. This is
Stage 2 of Phase 2 of the Rayners Lane Development Scheme. Stage 1 for
the erection of twenty-four flats had been approved and tenders accepted
in July 1959.
Tenders were also accepted for the work of demolishing Nos. 44 to
60 (even) Greenford Road, Sudbury, to be followed by the erection of
fifteen new dwellings on this site.
SUPERVISION OF OTHER PREMISES
The usual routine visits were paid by the Public Health Inspectors to
such premises factories, licensed premises, cinemas, schools, church
halls and dance halls, to see that the conditions were sanitary.