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The position at the end of the year in regard to the Borough council's
programme was that in addition to the 22 houses in respect of which orders had
been made a further 17 were under consideration by the County Council for
inclusion in the Borough Council's current programme, I am informed by the
County Medical Officer that the position in regard to the County Council's programme
at the end of the year was as follows:-
The clearance order relating to 12 houses in Welshpool street has been
confirmed, and two further areas - Tottenham Road (25 houses) and Trowbridge
Road (182 houses and one building) - had been inspected with a view to representation
early in the new year.
In accordance with the provisions of section l of the Housing Repairs and
Rents Act, 1954, which require a metropolitan borough council to submit to the
Minister, jointly with the London County council, proposals for dealing under
Parts II and III of the Housing Act, 1936, with houses which appear to the
authority to be unfit for human habitation or with any other houses within that
district which in the opinion of the authority ought to be included, a survey
of the borough to enable the return to be made, which commenced in 1953, continued
throughout the year,
PART IV (Abatement of overcrowding)
The results of the comprehensive survey of overcrowding undertaken in
accordance with section l of the Housing Act, 1935, are, of course, now entirely
out of date. The only reliable statistics relate to cases which have come to
the notice of the Department since 1945, in the main following inspection of
houses as a result of application for rehousing. During the year 80 new cases
were added to the Register, Overcrowding in 46 cases was abated by rehousing
by the London county Council and in 11 instances by the Borough council, and
in one instance the overcrowding was abated by the family finding other
accommodation.
When cases of overcrowding are discovered a summary of the appropriate
provisions of the Act, together with the permitted number for the dwelling, is
sent to the landlord with a warning to the effect that when the present occupants
are rehoused he must not permit the dwelling to again become overcrowded.
PART V (Provision of housing accommodation)
Twenty Compulsory Purchase Orders made by the Borough Council were confirmed
in 1954. The land involved totalled 14.427 acres on which were 104
dwelling houses. The total number of dwelling houses included in Orders confirmed
between the 1st July, 1945 and the 31st December, 1954 is 613,
Some 225 new dwellings were completed by the Borough Council and 599 were
under construction at the end of the year. since 1920 the Borough council has
provided 4,606 dwellings, including 657 temporary hutments and bungalows. At
the end of the year 411 of these bungalows and 79 temporary hutments remained
in use,, Families to the number of 3,380 were housed in properties held under
requisitioning powers.