[Report 1951-1952] / Medical Officer of Health, Raunds U.D.C.

  • Raunds (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1952
Catalogue details

Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Credit: [Report 1951-1952] / Medical Officer of Health, Raunds U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    17/24 (page 15)
    Individual Unfit Houses: Four houses, Nos.18, 20, 22 and 24 East Street, Staravick, 1 house vacant pending demolition. 3 houses awaiting reconditioning. Three houses, Nos.36, 38 and 40 Grove Street, Raunds. All vacant pending demolition. Two houses, Nos.1 and 3 Church Street, Raunds. 1 house still occupied at end of 1952. 1 house vacant pending demolition. Further action. The Council dealt with a number of houses as individually unfit in 1951 and 1952 and took statutory action under the Housing Act in the following cases :- No.33 Rotton Row, Raunds. House closed on owner's undertaking not to re-let it until it has been made fit. Nos.39, 41 and 43 Grove Street, Raunds. 1 house closed. 2 houses to be closed, but occupied at end of 1952. Nos.24, 26, 28 and 30 Thorpe Street, Raunds. 4 houses to be closed, but all occupied at end of 1952. No. 31 Thorpe Street, Raunds. House closed. No. 34 Thorpe Street, Raunds. House closed. No. 2 Thorpe Street, Raunds. House closed. No. 8 Thorpe Street, Raunds. House closed. In addition to the above informal action secured the complete reconstruction of the house No.2 Grove Place, Raunds, and the reconditioning and conversion of two houses into one at Friendly Lodge, Raunds, so that by the end of the period 233 unfit houses had been dealt with by statutory action or by informal action which might have been the preliminary to statutory decisions. Post War Housing. In 1 945 the Council estimated that they would hav«e to build 230 houses, 198 in Raunds and 32 in the Stanwick Ward, to meet the housing needs of the urban District. Building work commenced in 1946 whesn ten of the Uni-Seco type of prefabricated houses were erected in Raunds . Since then 158 permanent houses have been built, 34 at Stanwick and 124 at Raunds. The ’pre-fabs' are tv/o-be dr 00m type bungalows and of tine 158 new permanent houses, 122 have three bedrooms, 32 have two bedrooms ai*ad 4 are one bedroom bungalows for old people. These four bungalows with ten of a very similar type built' before the war bring the number of old people's houses owned by the Council 14. These bungalows are very popular. Every vacancy produces an ea^er demand for the tenancy from elderly couples or from old people living afl-one. The bungalows would be even more popular if nearer the centre of the towr# and it may well be that if suitable sites could be found near the main shopping street or the bus stops this type of accommodation might attract old people from larger houses much more suitable for younger people with growing families. Sixteen houses were under construction at the end of the year on the London Road Housing Site at Raunds and plans were in hand for another 28 and a pair of old people's bungalows on the same site.