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development of London in the past. When the operations
now envisaged are completed, the area will form an integral
part of an area of over 60 acres, including the Council's
existing housing development and Bethnal Green Hospital,
redeveloped on modern housing and town planning principles.
The undermentioned properties are included in the area :—
Houses—Working class 693
Houses with shops on ground floor—Working class 134
Premises, partly industrial or commercial and partly occupied
by persons of the working classes 22
Peabody Buildings—Eight blocks of dwellings—Working class 183
Premises occupied by persons not of the working classes 11
Licensed premises 12
Commercial premises (non-residential) 54
Factories and general industrial premises (non-residential) 59
Mowlem Street School 1
Roman Catholic Lithuanian Church 1
Vacant houses (including 4 shops with living accommodation over
them) 15
Vacant industrial and commercial properties 11
Derelict properties 14
Total 1,210
A portion of the London and North Eastern Railway runs
through the area on a viaduct and Cambridge Heath station
and various ancillary railway properties are situated in the
area.
Of the working-class dwelling houses in the area, 503 (47.4
per cent.) are unfit for human habitation and not capable
at reasonable expense of being rendered so fit (section 13 (l)
of the Housing Act, 1935). There are also two contiguous
blocks of tenement dwellings comprising 56 houses which are
not unfit but which are badly congested and overshadowed
at the rear.
In addition to overcrowding in houses which are unfit for
human habitation or congested, 24 other houses which are
not unfit or congested are overcrowded on the standard laid
down in the Act.