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HOUSING ACT, 1936
Housing Act, 1936, Part III: Clearance Areas.
The following premises were dealt with during the year under
Part III of the Housing Act, 1936, namely:—
Westgate Street Area:
Westgate Street—No. 15: Flats Nos. 1,2, & 3.
,, ,, No. 17: Flats Nos. 4,5,6,7,8, & 9.
,, ,, No. 19: Flats Nos. 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, & 15.
,, ,, No. 21: Flats Nos. 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, & 21.
,, ,, No. 23: Flats Nos. 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, & 27.
Homerton Terrace Area:
Homerton Terrace—Nos. 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23,
25, 27, 29, & 31.
Westgate Street Area.—This area comprises 27 dwellings,
contained in five blocks, each entered directly from the public
street. At the time of inspection, 60 persons resided in the area,
occupying 19 flats; the density being 1.1 persons per room.
The dwellings are badly planned and arranged internally and
are situated on a congested site. The premises contain dark,
overshadowed, cramped, inter-communicating and some low rooms,
and dark common passages. Most houses are damp, many are
without washing accommodation, and some have common washhouses,
sculleries, sinks, and water supplies. Water-closets are
unsatisfactory, cramped, and dark; some are not readily accessible
and many are entered directly from and ventilate into the living
rooms, and rooms where food is prepared and cooked. In other
cases, the water-closets are used in common by the tenants of two
flats. All the dwellings are without adequate provision for the
storage of food. Back addition structures are bulged, settled and
fractured, and in a state of structural disrepair.
The Borough Council are arranging to re-house the tenants,
having accepted an undertaking from the owners that the premises
will not be re-let for human habitation, and the Clearance Scheme
therefore remains unopposed.
Homerton Terrace Area.—The Homerton Terrace Area, comprising
15 terrace-type dwellings, was first represented to the
Council in the latter part of 1947. The number of persons then
residing in the area totalled 86, giving a density of 0.94 persons
per room.