London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

View report page

Camberwell 1932

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camberwell]

This page requires JavaScript

50
London County Council Housing Schemes in Camberwell.
Comber Estate, Wyndham Road, Camberwell, comprising:—
Tenement
dwellings.
Moffat House 42
Livingstone House 56
Speke House 17
Grenfell House 47
Comber House 102
Cameron House 61
Total 325
There are also 5 lock-up shops, an estate office, and a store.
Blue Anchor Lane Estate, Hill Street, Peckham, comprising:—
Tenements
or flats.
Wakefield House 91
Primrose House 36
There are also 12 shops and 11 barrow sheds.
Glebe Estate, Peckham Road.
This Estate, which has recently been completed, provides
accommodation for 326 families in tenement dwellings. This
scheme also made provision for the erection of an Infant Welfare
Centre which is tenanted by the Union of Girls' Schools' Voluntary
Association.
Tenement
dwellings.
Bentley House 89
Bodeney House 44
Dawson House 12
Dryden House 12
Fairwall House 59
Longleigh House 55
Mayward House 38
Sandby House 17
East Dulwich Estate, Dog Kennel Hill.
Ninety-six flats are in the course of erection on this site of
approximately 18 acres acquired for the purposes of a housing
scheme. The scheme when completed will comprise approximately
800 dwellings, including an elementary school.
Northfield Estate, Peckham Park Road.
The Peckham Park Road site (about 1½ acres) was acquired by
the London County Council in 1930 for development by the erection
of about 91 dwellings with 288 rooms in five-storey buildings. The
site contains 17 houses in Peckham Park Road and 8 houses in
Frensham Street, the remainder of the site being vacant land. It
was originally intended to retain the houses in Peckham Park Road