FLAT-DWELLERS TOWN
HUGE LONDON BLOCK HOMES FOR 11,000 PEOPLE (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 9 a.m. RUGBY, July 22. The Minister of Health, Mr. W. Elliott, yesterday opened at Shepherd’s Bush the London County Council’s largest and best-equipped group of fiats. The group will constitute a town in itself, with a population of about 11,000 in more* than 2.000 flats and eventually will have its own schools, churches, public hall, doctor’s house, clinic, 14 shops and children’s playing areas.
Mr. Elliot said that up to March this year the capital expenditure of the council on housing was over £60,000,000. Since the war the council had completed dwellings for an estimated population of 406,000 persons. The number of houses now under construction was 8000.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19997, 24 July 1939, Page 5
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