11,000 People to Inhabit New Block of Buildings London, July 23.
Constructed by the London County Council, the largest and best-equipped group of flats was opened yesterday at Shepherds Bush, London, by the Minister of Health, Mr. Walter Elliot.
The group will constitute a town in itself, with a population of about 11000 in more than 2,000 flats, and will eventually have its own schools, church, public hall, doctor's house and clinic, fourteen shops, and children's playing areas.
Mr. Elliot said that up to March this year, 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 or contract was 8,000.—Wireless through Reuter.
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