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HOUSING.
Full particulars of the housing in the Borough and the
Clearance Areas, etc., appear in the 1930 Report and need not now
be repeated beyond giving the following summary of the areas in
regard to which official representations have been made:—
Represented, in 1929.
Duncan Square Area.
Morning Lane Area.
Northwold Road Area.
Warburton Square Area.
Represented in 1931.
Banister Street Areas Nos. 1 and 2.
Represented in 1932.
Abbot Street Area.
East Street Area.
Elsdale Street Area.
Otley Terrace Area.
Prince of "Wales' Terrace Area.
Queen's Court Area.
No steps appear to have been taken by the London County
Council to deal with the four principal unhealthy areas in the
Borough, namely, the Duncan Square, Morning Lane, Northwold
Road and Warburton Square areas, with which the County Council
agreed to deal. At the end of 1932 the Borough Council asked the
County Council when that authority proposed to commence dealing
with these areas, and at the time of writing the County Council
have stated their intention of beginning with a Northwold Road
clearance and housing scheme. It was the intention of the Borough
Council to proceed with the clearance of the Banister Street areas
and to provide on these sites accommodation sufficient for all the
persons to be displaced from these areas and for a certain number
of persons to be displaced from other insanitary areas in the Borough
suitable only for clearance.
With this end in view, the Borough Council added to the areas
described as Banister Street Areas Nos. 1 and 2 certain adjacent
shop properties, thus securing a site suitable in area for the erection
of blocks of flats capable of housing 1,142 persons.
The Borough Council having submitted to the Minister of
Health for confirmation the three Compulsory Purchase Orders, the
Minister decided to hold an inquiry into the subject matter of the
Orders, and this was held on the 21st and 22nd June, 1932.
The Compulsory Purchase Orders Nos. 1 and 2 referred to the
property included in the Banister Street Areas Nos. 1 and 2, which,
with the exception of a public house in the centre of the insanitary
property included in area No. 1, the Council alleged to be unfit