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Housing.
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Cumbers Yard and Garden Cottages Area.— These two
areas are situated close together and form part of a larger area
which the Council decided to deal with in 1929 by means of an
Improvement Scheme under the Housing Act, 1925. Since that
date there has been an alteration in the law and this has necessitated
a modification of the original scheme.
The two areas are separated by a narrow strip of land which
was acquired by the Council by negotiation. As it has been
decided to utilise the land comprised in these two areas for the
re-housing of occupants from other insanitary areas in the Borough
the acquisition of this strip of land enables the Council to develop
the two areas as one.
When the Cumbers Yard Area was declared to be a Clearance
Area there were twenty-seven houses included in it consisting of
1 to 6, Cumbers Yard, 26, 28 and 50, Putney Bridge Road, 2, 4,
6, 8, 10 and 12, Frogmore, and 1 to 12, Martin's Buildings.
Fifteen of the houses were purchased by the Council by negotiation,
but the owner of 1 to 12, Martin's Buildings, appealed against
the Compulsory Purchase Order, which was made in respect of
this portion of the area, and after holding a Public Inquiry the
Minister of Health intimated that he was unable to confirm the
Order. As a result of this decision these twelve houses have been
excluded from the area which now consists of fifteen houses as
shown in the Table.
Garden Cottages Area consisted of 1 and 2, Garden Cottages
and 1 and 2, Marters Cottages.
Re-housing accommodation for the occupiers of these two
areas has been provided in flats erected by the Council in Merton
Road and Acuba Street. With one exception all the families
have removed and 18 of the 19 houses in the two areas have now
been demolished.
North Street Area.— This area was a particularly bad
one. It consisted of twenty-seven houses crowded on to a small
piece of land less than half an acre in extent. All the houses
are old, unhealthy and beyond repair. As a result of my representation
on this area in October, 1930, the Council declared it
a Clearance Area in 1931.