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Overcrowding Survey - White Hart Lane Estates
During 1955 a survey was carried out to obtain information
as to the degree of overcrowding in the London County Council
White Hart Lane Housing Estate and the Borough Council estates
in the same polling areas.
The method adopted was by service of a statutory notice on
the occupier requiring a return to be made of the number, sex and
age groups of the occupants of each dwelling. The limitations
of such method were realised in that it would only show where
statutory overcrowding existed in dwellings as a whole. It would
not disclose information as to sub-letting and the possible overcrowding
of sub-tenants. To get this information would have
required additional time and staff to carry out a house-to-house
investigation.
Nevertheless the enquiry has elicited certain worthwhile
information, and an analysis of the returns shows that of the
2,040 occupied dwellings on the London County Council estate 22
were overcrowded (1.1%) and of the 940 Borough Council dwellings
23 were overcrowded (2.4%). It is of interest to note that in
the 1936 overcrowding survey it was found that in the same London
County Council estate 109 dwellings were overcrowded (5.3%).
The present inquiry further shows the degree of under occupation
on the two estates. In 384 London County Council and 135
Borough Council dwellings the actual number of occupants is less
than one-third of the permitted number.
A complete analysis of the density of occupation shown in the
enquiry is given in the following tables:-