Flats Are Creating a Headache

CONISBROUGH Urban Council are having a headache over their £500,000 Wellgate and Balby Street Redevelopment Flats, which are proving too small and too expensive for the Denaby slum clearance families they were designed to accommodate

The Adwick Street. Denaby. Clearance area is ready for the bulldozers, the Council heard on Wednesday. and Public Health committee Chairman. Coun. Pat O’Neill, said : “I would like people living in council houses too big for them to offer to swop them for a Wellgate or a- Balby Street flat. Old people. especially, could take one of the special one-bedroom units: This would make the letting problem a lot easier.”

Rents

After the meeting, Conisbrough’s Chief Public Health Inspector, Mr. E. T. Swift who administers the Council’s house letting, told the —South Yorkshire Times”: “The flats are often too small for families displaced by slum clearance, and often the families don’t want to pay the rents.

“It would help us a lot if people living in big council houses who do not need a big house, would come along and offer to exchange.”

The Conisbrough and Denaby flats include units for old people and for younger families. and neither is fully complete.