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SECTION A
Statistics and Social Conditions
of the Area
Area (in acres) 8,970 (14 sq. miles approx).
Population 30,170
Number of inhabited houses 8,747
Rateable value £264,417
Sum represented by a penny rate £1,084 2s. 3d.
The rate in the pound for 1947/48 is 18/8d.
Much progress has been made in the development
of the L.C.C. Estates at Chigwell (Hainault) and
Loughton and the Council's Roding Valley Estate.
The Council's four temporary bungalow housing sites
have been completed. The number of temporary
houses provided is:-
Buckhurst Hill Hornbeam Road 58
Chigwell Lechmere Avenue 28
Millers Lane 14
Loughton Oakwood Hill 100
200
The population is steadily increasing with the
occupation of new houses on the L.C.C. Estates.
Two new temporary schools, one at Grange Hill,
Chigwell, and the other at Borders Lane, Loughton,
have been completed and are in use. More schools are
urgently needed to obviate overcrowding and the long
journeys which some school children have to make.
The development of the new light industries site
at Loughton has been commenced.
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