NEW BUILDING RECORDS

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 126, 30 May 1935, Page 9

NEW BUILDING RECORDS

NEARLY 3,000,000 HOUSEf

PROGRESS IN BRITAIN

(British Official Wireless.)

RUGBY, May 28.

Record activity in house-building is revealed in a White Paper issued tonight.

At the date of the/ Armistice the number of houses in ' England and Wales was just below 8,000,000. Since that date and March 31 last, 2,665,902 new houses were provided, 807,468 by local authorities and 1,848,434 by private enterprise.; The total figure does not include 14,601 houses built to house persons displaced'under reconstruction schemes under legislation pritor to 1930. * ■

The number of houses provided by, private enterprise, without State assistance, in the half-year ending March 31 last was 149,085. This constitutes a new record, the number being 12,120 more than in the previous halfyear, the for which was then itself a record. ' :

The total for the year ended March 31 was 286,050, being 38 per cent, greater than the corresponding total in the previous year, and more than double the number in any earlier year for which records are available.- ■■

In the year ended March 31^ unassisted private enterprise alone provided more houses than , the , local authorities and private to-^ gether had built in any such preceding year. \ '..'.• . :', . .