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Portobello Street Clearance Area.
On the 26th September, the Council, following
an official representation by the Medical Officer of
Health, resolved that the dwelling houses in an area
containing the following houses were, by reason of
disrepair or sanitary defects, unfit for human habitation,
or by reason of their bad arrangement or the
narrowness or bad arrangement of the streets, dangerous
or injurious to the health of the inhabitants, and that
other buildings in the area were for a like reason
dangerous or injurious to the health of the said inhabitants:-
Lonsdale Road - 16 houses
Portobello Road - 16 houses
Portobello Place - 21 mews dwellings
(and 17 sheds)
Portobello Street - 23 houses
Westbourne Grove - 14 houses
Colville Road - 9 houses.
In addition, the sites of 25 demolished houses
in Portobello Street, Westbourne Grove and Lonsdale Road
were included in the area and the Council resolved to
make the whole area a clearance area under the Housing
Act, 1936.
On the 19th December, the Council resolved to
make a compulsory purchase order in respect of the
Portobello Street area.
Individual Unfit Houses.
Following representation by the Medical
Officer of Health that seven houses in Portland Road and
one in Yeomans Row were unfit for habitation and not
repairable at reasonable cost, the Council accepted
undertaking from the owners under Part II of the Housing
Act, 1936, that the houses would not be used for human
habitation.
Individual Unfit Parts of Houses.
Undertakings were accepted from the owners that
one basement dwelling and four separate underground rooms
would not be used for human habitation until rendered fit.
Closing orders were made by the Council in respect of
15 unfit underground rooms, and two orders in respect of
2 other underground rooms were determined by the Council,
on being satisfied that the rooms had been made fit for
habitation by the owners.
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS.
Public Health (London) Act. 1936.
Nuisances . During the year, 18 summonses were
taken out for various nuisances under the Public Health
(London) Act, 1936. In 14 cases, abatement or prohibition
orders were secured, and fines of £21. 14s. Od.
were imposed. Of the remaining 4 cases, two summonses
were withdrawn, the nuisances having been abated, and two
were adjourned sine die.