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as the applicants have been accommodated on London
County Council estates, or have secured other accommodation
outside the borough. In addition a large number
of enquiries have been received from applicants residing
outside the borough.
I am indebted to the Borough Surveyor for the
following details regarding the scheme:—
On this site 369 flats and 16 lock-up shops are to
be built by the Borough Council. There will be 9 blocks,
one block being in four, and all the others in five storeys.
The ground, first and second floors of the five-storey
blocks have been arranged as self-contained flats, but
the third and fourth floors of these blocks have been
arranged as a series of two-storey tenements, with the
living rooms and domestic offices on the third floor and
the bedrooms on the fourth floor with a separate internal
staircase for each flat. This arrangement has been
devised in order to limit to the third floor the height to
which any tenant has to mount to reach his entrance
door.
The main entrance to the dwellings will be by
means of an archway in the middle of the block facing
Fulham Road. A number of access gates will also be
provided in the Shottendane Road frontage. The inner
blocks have been planned to abut upon central courts,
which is a departure from the usual method of arranging
tenement dwellings. These courts will be kept free of
any entrances to the dwellings and will be utilised solely
for recreative and garden purposes. It is intended to
prohibit the use of the courts for the drying of clothes
or other domestic purposes. The living rooms and main
bedrooms will front upon these courts which will ensure
a quietness and out-look which should be appreciated
by the occupiers.
Very careful consideration has been given to the
distance between the blocks so as to ensure adequate
light and ventilation of the dwellings. The blocks
fronting Shottendane Road have been purposely set
back so as to permit of gardens being laid out.