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Demolition Orders.
Demolition orders were made by the Council during the year
in respect of 5 houses, viz., No. 2 Berkeley Street, No. 28 Plough
Road, and Nos. 3, 4 and 5 Foots Row, under section 19 of the
Housing Act, 1930.
These houses were duly demolished.
One other house (Creek Street) was represented with a view to
a demolition order being made in respect thereof, and the matter
was under consideration at the end of the year.
Closing Orders.
No Closing Orders were made by the Council during 1934, but one
property in Lavender Road was represented with a view to such
action being taken, and the matter was under consideration at the
end of the year.
Increase of Rent, Etc., Acts.
During 1934, 13 applications were received from tenants
for the certificate, and 6 from owners for the report of the Sanitary
Authority under the above mentioned statutes. The application
for a certificate was granted in 10 cases and refused in 3 cases;
that for a report was granted in each case.
Action under Section 5 of the Housing Act, 1925.
During 1934, in 9 cases (relating to 11 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.
Structural Defects.
The attention of the District Surveyor of the London County
Council was drawn, in 81 instances, to structural defects observed
by the Sanitary Inspectors during the course of their duties.
Insanitary Houses.
The following is a list of streets in the Borough in which houses
were found, on inspection, to be insanitary, and were dealt with
by the Council under the provisions of the Housing Acts, either
informally or by the service of notice under section 17 of the Housing
Act, 1930, or under the provisions of section 19 of the Act, during
1934:—