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a view to Demolition Orders being made thereon, but action in
regard to these was still pending at the end of the year.
Closing Orders.
A Closing Order was made by the Council on the 20th July,
1932, in respect of the front basement room on No. 3, Tyneham Road,
prohibiting its use for sleeping purposes.
Increase of Rent Etc., Acts.
During 1932, 10 applications were received from the tenants
for the certificate, and 4 from owners for the report of the Sanitary
Authority under the above mentioned statutes. The application
for the certificate was granted in 8 cases and refused in 2 cases;
that for the report was granted in all 4 cases.
Rent and Mortgage Interest Restrictions (Amendment) Bill.
A Government Bill was introduced into Parliament at the
end of the year amending the existing legislation relating to the
control of dwelling houses. Broadly, the effect of this Bill, so far
as London is concerned, is that premises of a rateable value of more
than £45 shall be decontrolled, those of rateable value between
£20 and £45 are to remain subject to present legislation and those
at present controlled having a rateable value of less than £20 are
to remain controlled even though under existing legislation the
premises would have become decontrolled.
The Bill also provides that the Rent and Mortgage Interest
(Restrictions) Acts shall continue for a period of five years and no
longer.
Action under Section 5 of the Housing Act, 1925.
During 1932, in 28 cases (relating to 38 houses) contraventions
of section 5 of the Housing Act, 1925, which requires, under penalty,
the rent book to be kept in a prescribed form, were reported to the
Housing Committee. Satisfactory explanations having been
received and the rent books having been put in order, no legal
proceedings were considered necessary, but the Housing Committee
directed cautionary letters to be sent to the offenders.
Clearance Areas.
No insanitary areas were represented to the Council in 1932.
The Housing Committee had under consideration for clearance
2 areas, viz.: the Nine Elms (Island site) area, and the Sheepcote
Lane area (vide p. 103) but had not arrived at a definite decision
in the matter at the end of 1932.