Report of the Committee on Housing in Greater London / Chairman: Sir Milner Holland. Presented to Parliament by the Minister of Housing and Local Government by command of Her Majesty, March, 1965.

  • Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee on Housing in Greater London.
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[1965]
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Credit: Report of the Committee on Housing in Greater London / Chairman: Sir Milner Holland. Presented to Parliament by the Minister of Housing and Local Government by command of Her Majesty, March, 1965. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    or oral evidence alone. We therefore made visits to some of the parts of London where the greatest stress was reported, had discussions with the members of Borough Councils and inspected housing both old and new, some grossly over-crowded, some tumble-down or ill-maintained and some im- proved up to the highest standards. We have also tried to see for ourselves representative examples of most of the conditions with which our report deals. These visits also enabled us to discuss local conditions with the officers of local authorities whose co-operation and help in our enquiries and whose intimate knowledge at first hand of housing problems has been of the greatest assistance. The account we have given of our sources will, we hope, show that we have cast our net wide. The resulting heavy haul would in any case have presented great difficulties of analysis, condensation and presentation; our continuous determination to produce an early report, as we have been asked to do, has placed quite exceptional stresses on all concerned, particularly on our secre- tarial and research staff. To them, and to us, the fact that this report had to be published within a matter of weeks after much of the most important material, particularly that deriving from the Social Survey Inquiry, first became avail- able to us, has caused great anxiety and some regret. We hope that the con- flicting requirements of speed, accuracy and completeness will not prove to have been wholly incompatible; and if, in the result, the report bears some marks of this difficulty, as we are afraid it may, we hope to be judged with understanding.