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HOUSING DIVISION
The two years' work has again highlighted the urgent need for additional
elderly persons' dwellings, and the Council has instructed the Borough Architect
and Planning Officer to proceed as quickly as possible with building these
dwellings in specified parts of the Borough.
On the 1st October, 1968 the re-organised structure of the housing administration
came into operation when rent collecting was transferred to the
Borough Treasurer, repairs and maintenance to the Borough Architect and Planning
Officer, with arrears procedure, rent rebates and housing management remaining
with the Housing Manager, whose office was transferred from 24 Cheam Road,
Sutton, to the Lodge, Honeywood Walk, Carshalton.
New Properties
During the years under review a total of 732 properties (159 in 1968 and
573 in 1969) were handed over from the Borough Architect and Planning Officer
completed and ready for occupation. These were mainly at Roundshaw and Culvers
Avenue, Carshalton. The total number of properties as at 31st December, 1968,
was 5151o

Waiting List
Position at 31st December 1968 2,300 applicants
" " 31st December 1969 1,868 "
Lettings
Mutual Exchanges and Transfers
725 lettings were completed during 1969; 43 exchanges and transfers were
arrangedo
Families whose applications are considered to qualify for an award of
medical priority and those designated as being in urgent need are so classified
only after the most careful scrutiny of their circumstances.
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