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GENERAL
A statistical analysis and description of the growth of the Borough, together with
the occupations of the residents and their places of work, was given in my report for 1935.
The detailed housing programme drawn up at that date involved the immediate displacement
of 131 families from seven clearance areas and the subsequent displacement of 925 from a proposed
redevelopment area, together with 600 families living in overcrowded houses who would still be
overcrowded after making allowance for the maximum reallocation of overcrowded families in
houses now overcrowded, but which could be utilised for smaller families.
During 1937 accommodation was provided on new Estates as follows:—
For the abatement of overcrowding 22 flats.
For slum clearance 70 flats.
The following table indicates the position at the end of 1937, after making allowance for the
two estates mentioned above.
TABLE 14
EXISTING COMMITMENTS AND EXISTING REPLACEMENT ACCOMMODATION
For Demolition:-
Flats Required.
1930 Clearance Orders
30
Avenues Clearance Section
392
Avenues Redevelopment Section
533
955
For relief of overcrowding
600
1,555
Replacement Sites:-
Flats to be Erected.
St. James' Home
Ill
Bagley's Lane
90
Field Road
80
Carnwath Road
8
North End Road
95
Fulham Road
83
467
Replacements on Avenues Site
485
952
Deficiency for which sites are not yet available
603 flats.
THE AVENUES PROPOSED REDEVELOPMENT AREA
This area, which is a typical legacy from Fulham's expansion period of 1881—1891, contains
438 houses and 925 families, with a population in 1936 of 3,213 persons and has an area of
12.55 acres.
I reported on this area, giving its history and details of existing conditions in June, 1936,
and the Council gave formal notice to the London County Council on the 24th June under Section 2 (5)
of the Housing Act, 1935, of their intention to pass a resolution under Section 13 of the Housing
Act, 1935. The County Council intimated that they did not themselves intend to deal with the
area and a formal resolution declaring the area to be a proposed redevelopment area was passed