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Housing Programme.—In January the Council agreed a programme
for 1958 providing for the erection of 559 dwellings on
various sites, including a further 251 at Outwood Common.
The Ministry had already indicated that the Government's
policy was to reduce the number of houses to be built over the next
few years, but following a meeting which members of the Committee
had with the Ministry on the 1st April, 1958, the Ministry indicated
that they would be prepared to consider tenders for the erection of
a further 360 dwellings for the calendar years 1958 and 1959, and
that to provide continuity of work for the Building Works Department
they would be prepared, within the total of 360, to consider
the estimate of the Buildings Works Manager for the erection of
sixty-two dwellings at The Drive, Stage VIIA, without the work
being put out to tender.
The Council accepted the Ministry's offer, but reserved the
right to make further representations at a later date. Subsequently,
schemes for the erection of sixty-two dwellings at The Drive,
Stage VIIA by the Building Works Department and 149 at Outwood
Common, twenty-one at Manor Road, seventy-eight at Frederick
Street and Grange Road and forty-nine at Chingford Road and
Knebworth Avenue were approved by the Ministry.
Early in September the Ministry indicated that they would be
prepared to give consideration to further tenders for the erection of
houses submitted before the end of September and the schemes
for the twenty-two dwellings at Whipps Cross and the four dwellings
at the junction of Winns Avenue and Higham Hill Road have been
submitted to the Ministry and have now been approved.
Outbuilding.
(a) Outwood Common.
The contract for the first 149 houses on the southern part of
the site was let on the 12th May, 1958, and work commenced on
the 14th May, 1958.
It is proposed to erect a total of 434 dwellings on this site.
Negotiations with the other authorities in South-West Essex
as to the allocation of the houses are actively proceeding.
(b) Barn Hall, Wickford.
It is proposed to erect a total of 326 dwellings on this site.
Negotiations with the other authorities in South-West Essex
as to the allocation of the houses are actively proceeding.