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Brentford and Chiswick 1936
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Brentford and Chiswick]
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imposed the obligation on Local Authorities to provide accommodation
to relieve such overcrowding as existed on the
"appointed day", subject of course to certain safeguards.
The "appointed day" for this Borough has been fixed, viz.,
January 1st, 1937.
For convenience, therefore, the statistics set out below,
relating to housing work within the Borough, are enumerated
under the headings of the Acts now repealed and consolidated
in the Housing Act, 1936.
Housing Act, 1930.
Continued progress has been made with the putting into
effect of the scheme prepared by the Council and submitted to
the Ministry of Health for dealing with the "slum clearance"
problem, as required by the Housing Act, 1930. Here again
progress would have been more rapid but for the difficulty of
obtaining suitable sites for the erection of houses to accommodate
persons likely to be displaced.
The following summary sets out the actual position at the end of 1936 of the work under the Housing Act, 1930:—
| Number of Clearance Orders made by the Borough Council and confirmed by the Minister of Health | 32 | |
| Number of houses actually demolished in Clearance Areas | 221 | |
| Number of houses where Clearance Orders have been confirmed but not yet demolished | 40 | |
| Number of individual houses demolished under Demolition Orders | 5 | |
| Number of houses where Demolition Orders have been made, but houses not yet demolished | 2 | |
| (/) | Number of houses demolished by owners in anticipation of action by the Local Authoritv | 31 |
| Number of houses scheduled for demolition but where official action is still to be taken | 41 |
Examination of the foregoing statistics shows that the
total number of houses actually demolished within the Borough,
either as a result of official order or otherwise, is 257, while
the number of houses where official action is completed and
awaiting demolition is 42, making a total of 299, with 41 houses
scheduled but still awaiting action to be taken' as and when the
Local Authority is in a position to re-house the tenants who
would be displaced.