SUBURBAN HOUSE FAMINE

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8178, 3 May 1919, Page 2 (Supplement)

SUBURBAN HOUSE FAMINE

WEMBLEY'S SCHEME FOR 200 CHEAP HOMES. NOVEL IMPROVEMENTS. The Wembley Council has decide J erect 200 houses off the Ealing read a, soon as arrangements can ,l>e complete and the material obtained (says an K,;. lish contemporary). The scheme i s ? ■build houses containing three balroum, and two downstair rooms, bathrou® etc. Tiie cost of this c.'ass of hum,. the persent day would necessitate a ra , tal of 16/- a week, but they mav » let to tenants at 12.-. the Governing,, and rates to pay the difference. Tiie Wembley Trade Council and tie Co-operative Women’s Guild have viewed the Council, asking that Blr jJ windows shall be provided to farilitaj cleaning inside and out. and that slid, ing doors shall be fitted to all room. To take up no room, that wardrobes cupboards shall be fitted in each room; that rounded corners slm)| l made in all rooms; that scullery shall lie tiled half-way up, and tilth floors provided in the kitchen: l>atl, rooms tiled up to the ceiling; also thai cupboards and radiators slia'l be vided for drying. CENTRALISED HEATING, They ask for centralist,! wash-houses electrical power, and heating. g nt J heating would do away with the need nf 200 ranges. With central heating t |, ( whole of the dirt and soot would be i, one place, and a great amount of «<i r ' £ and labour would lie saved. Them should also be centralised cooking arrangements, and all fittii,.,, shou'd be electrical where possible. Interviewed to-day, Mr. E. Utitler chairman of the Urban District Counuf said the committer had not (unsid w ,j the proposals farther, hut on the f ln of them they seemed to bo very sensibl, and should not be very difficult to carrt out. Asked as _ to the centralised wad,. houses, he said the question was «bother all the women would not want to n.„ them on the same day; otherwise the saving in labour and expense would . great. Mr. Butler did not think a common, al kitchen -would be included in % scheme, because in the Harrow district it had not been found to be a success, ONLY A BEGINNING. “ The 200 houses are hut a beginning, ! he said. “If we get more sites and land we shall go forward. “ In the present case we shall not have f -te regulation 40ft. roadway in front because they will not 1* ‘through’ roa*' and will only be used by the occupant) of the houses and tradesmen ; hut there will be seventy fecit from house to house “We sha'l vary the design of th houses. Some of them may have only two bedrooms, so that tenants requiring but little accommodation may talte 'them. We may build the houses of reinforced concrete.” The Housing Committee will sympathetically consider all the proposals, particularly those relating to centralisa! tion, and (he. Council has applied for £9,000 to start the scheme forthwith. CONFERENCES ON HOUSING. C-onferertr-es of local authorities about to be held throughout -the country ?n connection with the p’ans for nation al housing. The first- of tile series, arranged "by the National Housing and Town Planning Council, will l>e bold a; Bristol, and will lie attended hv delegates representing the local authority of the West of England, including 6 n Rural District Councils. Other conferences are fin ho held in London. Leak Manchester. Cnr liff Birmingham, Nor wioli Lincoln. Maidstone. Portsmouth Oxford. Cambridge. Plvmoutli. pH Bangor, and in Scotland.