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Action under Section 5 of the Housing Act, 1925.
During 1929, 49 cases relating to 76 houses were reported to
the Housing Committee for contravention of Section 5 of the Housing
Act, 1925, which requires the rent book to be kept in the prescribed
form.
In all cases notice was given to the owners concerned and in
47 cases, satisfactory explanations having been received and the
requirements of the section complied with, cautionary letters
were, by order of the Committee, sent to the offenders. In two
cases proceedings were taken, the results of which will be found
set out on page 68.
Insanitary Areas.
No insanitary areas were represented to the Council
during 1929.
The Plough Road Improvement Scheme, as approved by the
Ministry of Health, was completed during the year, and as a result
eleven blocks, each containing six tenements, have replaced the
old, worn-out, generally dilapidated houses which formerly stood
on the site.
As described in the Annual Report for 1928, the Council,
by the acquisition of other properties by negotiation, were able to
extend the scheme and so make provision for three more blocks
(eighteen tenements). Of these one block was completed during
1929.
With regard to the Savona Street area which was represented
as an Insanitary Area in 1920 but was not proceeded with, the
Council took advantage of an opportunity which arose to purchase
three houses, Nos. 18, 20 and 22 Savona Street, adjoining the
tenements already erected by the Council. In order that it might
be possible when circumstances permitted to pull down these old
houses and erect on the site a block of six tenements, the Council
also purchased No. 24 Savona Street.