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GENERAL STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE
BOROUGH
Area (Acres) 2,607 762
Population—Registrar-General's estimate (mid 1960) 53,150
Number of Inhabited houses according to the Rate Book at 31st March, 1960 14,953
Average number of occupants per house 3.55
Sum produced by a penny rate £4,059
Rateable Value £999,042
Parks and Open Spaces controlled by the Council:—
Brent Meadow 8.92 acres
Cranleigh Play Park 2.00 acres
Dormers Wells Housing Site 2.99 acres
Dudley Road Island 0.13 acres
Durdans Park 22.48 acres
Football Ground, Western Road 3.51 acres
Frogmore Green 0.35 acres
Glade Lane 27.93 acres
Havelock Road Open Space 2.22 acres
Jubilee Park 11.13 acres
Lady Margaret Road 0.25 acres
Land at junction of Windmill Lane and Tentelow Lane 0.48 acres
Land on west side of Cranleigh Gardens 1.07 acres
Lea Road 0.13 acres
North Road Island 0.35 acres
Norwood Green 7.25 acres
Queen's Road 0.13 acres
Recreation Ground 18.00 acres
Southall Municipal Sports Ground 19.78 acres
Southall Park 26.77 acres
Swimming Bath Site, Dormers Wells 10.50 acres
The Manor House 2.00 acres
West Middlesex Golf Course 108.00 acres
Western Road 0.17 acres
Wolf Fields 3.33 acres
Wolf Green 0.18 acres
Land to North-West of Kingsbridge Crescent 0.12 acres
Land on North side of Spencer Street 0.31 acres
280.48 acres
The Borough of Southall which has developed from a rural district fifty years ago,
sparsely populated, into a busy industrial town almost fully built up, is compact and almost
forms a square with water boundaries on three sides—the River Brent forms its eastern
boundary, on the west there are the Grand Union Canal and the Yeading Brook, while
the canal continues also along the southern boundary for about half its distance. Because
of its comparative modernity it has no large areas of slum property, and although there
are some streets where the houses are inadequate by modern standards, the structure
is sound. Although it is satisfactory that this should be so, for the health of the occupants,
the presence of streets of inadequate houses prevents, in a district very short of vacant
land, much possibility of redevelopment on any substantial scale. Already land in two
neighbouring boroughs has had to be used for Council House building to assist with the
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