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The year under review has seen the completion of the
building programme and the occupancy of the new dwellings by
tenants de-housed under the first slum clearance scheme and the
second slum clearance involving the demolition of 121 houses and
the re-housing of 453 persons, has been considerably further
advanced.
The Ministry of Health approved the Council's scheme for
the erection, at Ham of 8 A.2, 74 A.3 and 10 A.4 type houses
making a total of 92 houses. In addition, 28 flats are to be
erected under the 1925 Act on the Crofton Terrace Area.
Good progress has been made with the building of the new
houses on the Ham estates and 34 families have been transferred
from the condemned slum areas to the new dwellings. It is
expected that the whole of the families will be re-housed before
the end of 1936.
Individual Unfit Premises.
During the year official representations were made of the
premises la, Duke Street and Nos. 6 and 8, Paved Court, which
were parts of buildings let as separate tenements and occupied
by persons of the working classes. The said premises were unfit
for human habitation and were not capable at reasonable expense
of being rendered so fit. The owners were given an opportunity
of presenting their case before the Committee and in each instance
gave an undertaking that the premises would not be used for
human habitation until the Authority, on being satisfied that they
had been rendered fit for such purposes, cancelled such
undertaking.
Closure of Underground Sleeping Rooms.
As a result of action taken by the Council under Section 18
(1) of the Housing Act, 1925, which resulted in the closure of