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C. Hutments, 320 originally, now reduced to 74
Therefore, total number of properties used for
housing by the Mitcham Borough Council is 4,379
Number of People Rehoused
About 10,300 applicants have registered since 1945, and the
current list is still about 1,300, so that some 9,000 applicants have
been dealt with.
Housing Situation
The outlook is still rather bad as regards new housing. Very few
houses could be built in 1958 as there is no available land in Mitcham
apart from the Phipps Bridge area due for development some time
in the future, and isolated sites that become vacant.
The few slum clearance areas serve in turn to rehouse those who
are displaced.
The Council in their developments outside Mitcham are participating
in a scheme at Frimley and Camberley to the extent of 250
dwellings.
Slum Clearance
The sites in High Street, Colliers Wood, and Byegrove Road
are occupied. There remain a few families in Love Lane and Church
Place not yet re-housed.
All the tenants in Nicholls Cottages, Gaston Road, have been
rehoused and the site is to be developed.
At the end of the year twelve cottage flats on the Cedars
Estate will be built, and the Mitcham Borough Council is co-operating
with the Mitcham Old People's Housing Association in the conversion
of 112, Tamworth Lane into 18 flatlets for old people.
Rent Act, 1957
One hundred and one applications were made for Certificates of
Disrepair. In 73 cases undertakings to carry out the work were
received from the various landlords, but six of these undertakings
were not accepted. In the remaining 34 cases certificates were
issued.
Twenty certificates were subsequently cancelled on application by
the landlords, the works having been completed.