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Category A + 15
"A 264
" B 410
" C 109
No specific
assessment 24
Pending 9
Since the scheme's inception 593 cases have been categorised A and A† and 295 have been
rehoused.
House-to-House Inspections
During 1967 the work of discovering and dealing with houses in multi-occupation has continued. The Council authorised a programme of house-to-house inspections in certain selected
streets spread throughout the Borough. Specialist teams of public health inspectors have carried
out these inspections dealing with nuisances, other housing matters, and at the same time enforcing the multi-occupation requirements of the Housing Acts, 1961 and 1964. District Public
Health Inspectors have continued to deal with these matters as they arose in parts of the Borough
not covered by the house-to-house inspections.
louses in Multiple Occupation
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
Number of new
premises inspected
20 (143
lettings)
129 (464
lettings)
46 (277
lettings)
36 (224
lettings)
253 (412
lettings)
309 (804
lettings)
Of these, informal
action was taken in
respect of
18
premises
36
premises
46
premises
10
premises
253
premises
215
premises
Number of premises
where no further
action taken
2
premises
93
premises
Nil
5
premises
Nil
94
premises
Number of premises
where formal
action commenced
2
premises
18
premises
19
premises
13
premises
17
premises
85
premises
Total number of
inspections made
132
577
929
314
991
1815
Slum Clearance Programme
During 1967, 149 houses were surveyed or examined in detail and 10 houses in 2 Clearance
Areas were represented as being unfit for human habitation. Four Compulsory Purchase orders
were made by the Council during the year involving 91 unfit properties.
Partly as a result of clearance area legislation and partly due to acquisition by agreement,
during the year 70 dwellings which had formed part of current or previous slum clearance programmes were demolished.
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