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HOUSING
This problem appears to be less acute, because of acceleration of Council house-building,
provision of New Town housing, and movement of population. Work under the Housing
Repairs and Rents Act, 1954, in Southall has been up to the end of 1955 in respect of individual
demolitions and closures only. In the course of the year, of 8 families living in houses
represented in 1951 for demolition, 5 were rehoused.
In 1955, 33 houses were represented for demolition and 4 for closure. In respect of
one of these houses, a County Court appeal decided the acceptance of an undertaking to
render the house fit.
Thirty applications for Certificates of Disrepair were received and 30 granted, and,
of those, 5 revocations were later granted.
Middlesex County Council Act, 1944—Section 345
There are two sites in the Borough on which caravans are used as living accommodation.
The first, on the junction of Regina Road and Pluckington Place, has been established
for many years as the winter quarters of a member of the Showmen's Guild. On the second,
in the south-westerly corner of the Borough, at the junction of the two branches of the
Grand Union Canal, are two caravans occupied, with the approval of the Local and County
Authorities, for a limited period of five years from 1954.
The following details have been supplied by the Borough Engineer, outlining the
complete amount of house building for Southall since the end of the war.