§ 55. Sir J. Edenasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government what information he has available or has called for concerning the number of one-bedroom or single-room flatlets in Bournemouth which are over-occupied and inadequately provided with toilet, washing, cooking, and storage facilities; and what new measures he proposes to alleviate the shortage of available accommodation and to encourage landlords to improve their properties.
§ Mr. MellishThe 1961 census shows that 917 households in Bournemouth were occupying shared dwellings of one or two rooms without exclusive use of a cooking stove or sink; but the census does not give separate information about toilet or food storage facilities in those cases. Eighty-four of these households were living at a density of more than one and a half persons per room. My right hon. Friend has asked local authorities to review housing needs in their areas and to let him have building programmes for four years ahead and he is urging a big extension in the use of industrialised40W building methods. He is reviewing the improvement grants system to see how it can be made more effective.