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(4) Number of dwelling-houses in respect of
which Demolition Orders were made Nil
(5) Number of dwelling-houses demolished
in pursuance of Demolition Orders Nil
4. Number of houses owned by the Local Authority
distinguishing those built in the last two years
and held under (1) Part III of the Housing
Act, 1925, (2) Part II of the Housing Act, 1925,
and (3) other powers 522
(Held under Housing Financial Provisions Act, 1924.)
REPORT.
In December a report on the provisional proposals of
the Royal Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames with regard
to Housing, pursuant to Section 25 of the Housing Act,
1930, was submitted to the Minister of Health by the Corporation,
and read as follows:—
Since March, 1924, the Kingston-upon-Thames Corporation
have erected 522 houses for the working classes;
of these, 40 are of the parlour type, the remaining 482 being
of the non-parlour type. There have been erected 432 of
these houses at varying periods during the last five years.
As the Corporation are at the moment faced with a waiting
list which contains the names of 711 applicants, it is the
intention of the Corporation to continue their housing programme
as far as is reasonably possible on the scale
operating during the last five years, and this figure has
accordingly been entered in the notes below.
The Corporation has been up to the present, and is at
the moment, unfortunately placed with regard to the erection
of houses for the working classes on account of the shortage
of available building land in the Borough. Out of the
522 Bouses erected by the Corporation up to the date of the
submission of this report, only 182 of such houses have
been erected within the area of Kingston-upon-Thames,
the Corporation having had to purchase land within the
area of the Maidens and Coombe Urban District Council
in order that the remaining 340 might be erected in which
to house Kingston applicants. It is estimated that there
are only 33 acres of building land in Kingston, and this is
widely scattered and not suitable or available for the erection
of dwellings for the working classes.