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difficult to estimate with accuracy the extent of such
shortage. A large number of bouses are sub-let
without being actually overcrowded. Many of these
sub-tenants would be only too willing to have houses
of their own, but the high rents forbid them taking
advantage of the recently built houses.
One hundred and six houses have been erected
by the Council, and a further fifty were in course of
erection at the end of 1925.
A number of the larger old-fashioned houses in
the district have been converted into fiats.
Building by private enterprise is also proceeding
in a very pleasing manner.
Considerable development has been taking place,
more particularly in regard to Westfield Lodge
Estate, where over 100 houses have been erected,
the Regent Farm Estate where new roads are being
laid out with necessary sewers, etc., with provison for
the erection of between 500 and 600 houses, similarly
at the Egmont Estate where possibly about the same
number of houses will be erected. The surplus land
on the Surbiton Hill Housing Site has been acquired
by a builder who has erected 75 subsidy houses on
this Estate, the development being in accordance
with the Council's original plans, making now a total
number of 131 houses on this Estate.
The following table shows the number of new
houses erected in the district during the past five
years:—
The following table shows the number of new
houses erected in the district during the past live
years:—