[Report 1919] / Medical Officer of Health, Watford U.D.C.

  • Watford (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1919
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Credit: [Report 1919] / Medical Officer of Health, Watford U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    At the next Housing Committee, September IGtli, a Tender was accepted from Mr. C. Ball, of Letch worth,, for Streets and Sewers for Willow Lane Scheme, subject to Contract. With regard to Wiggenhall Estate it was reported that the apportionment had been made, and the Committee sug¬ gested an interview with the Ministry to finally settle this question. At the Public Health Committee of September the 23rd, it was reported that plans had been re¬ ceived from five achitects for the first instalment of 4T houses, contracts for which had been advertised, that some quantities had been received and the others would be for¬ warded as soon as printed. October. — October saw the progress of Willow Lane Scheme, as on October Tth the Council accepted the Tender of the Garden City Housing Co. for the building of the forty houses arranged for. This was subject to the approval of the Ministry, the Housing Commissioners, and any other necessary Authorities. At a Housing Committee Meeting on October 21st a letter from the Ministry with regard to local builders undertaking small groups of houses on pieces of unoccupied land was read, and the Committee settled to approach the builders and do everything they could to encourage this additional source of supply of houses. One of the frequent communications urging the Coun¬ cil to get on with building was received from a local trade organisation. The Council had received several memoranda with regard to procedure in Housing Schemes, but during* this month there were five received, one after the other, and considering* that most of these memoranda dealt with Housing Schemes only just being started, the regulations, instead of being a help in the quickening of building operations on the Harebreaks Estate, tended to raise new complications and clash with what we had already done. One thing was, I think, definitely settled by the Min¬ istry, that delivery of building materials was a matter for the Council, who should order from Director of Build¬ ing Materials Supply. The two General Housing* Memoranda affecting* the Council most at this moment were No. 10 re-Model Form of Contract, D88, which the Ministry recommended to be