PROJECT FOR FLATS
MANCHESTER SLUM AREA MANCHESTER, Nov. 6. Manchester’s first block of municip-ally-owned fiats, now in course of erection at. a cost of £BI,OOO at Smedley Lane, Chcetham, Manchester, will provide accommodation for 181 families. A spacious live-storied building, designed on modern horizontal lines, surrounds a court, which, is laid out and turfed as a playground for children. The flats form part of the city’s £8,000,000 fit e-year plan, by .which to get rid of 15.000 slum dwellings. A second tiock is to be built at Ivirkmanshulme Lane, costing £98,000, and providing accommodation for 204 families. Other flats are planned for West Gorton and Collyhurst. The city has already taken steps for the clearance of 5501 houses and the removal of 23,482 former slum dwellers to better surroundings. But even with the five-year plan completed and 15,000 slum dwellings demolished, it is computed there will still be 15,000 houses within the city boundaries which are not reasonably fit for occ'iipation.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18594, 3 January 1935, Page 7
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161PROJECT FOR FLATS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18594, 3 January 1935, Page 7
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