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At a front underground room in Gayton Road, as a result of the
Council proposing to take into consideration the question of the
making of a Closing Order, the works necessary to render the room
fit for human habitation were carried out.
At Cleve Road, Closing Orders were made in 1932 in respect of
four underground rooms. Two of these were subsequently made to
conform with the Regulations and the Closing Orders in respect of
them were determined in 1933. Another underground room at the
same house was found to be illegally occupied, and on the Housing
Committee early in 1933 recommending that a Closing Order should
be made, the necessary works were carried out.
The method of dealing with underground rooms used for sleeping,
by closure is only resorted to in those cases in which it is thought
the rooms are not capable, at a reasonable expense, of being rendered
fit for human habitation, or in those cases where the occupants have
been housed elsewhere by the County Council and that Council has
asked that Closing Orders be made in respect of the vacated underground
sleeping rooms. Apart from the foregoing it is our practice
to get the owners to carry out the necessary works to make the rooms
conform to the requisites of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, or
to the Regulations made by the Council under the Housing Acts, in
order that they may again be let.
Closing Orders which were made in 1930 in respect of four
underground rooms at premises in Oak Hill Way were determined on
the 22nd December, 1932, the necessary works having been carried
out to make the rooms conform with the Regulations made by the
Council.
The Borough Council's Five Years' Housing Programme.
The Council, on the 23rd July, 1931, upon the recommendation
of the Housing Committee, resolved that formal notice should be
given in pursuance of Section 16 (5) (2) of the Housing Act, 1930,
to the London County Council that the Borough Council intended to
take into consideration a proposal that the following areas should be
declared to be Clearance Areas, viz.:—
Stamford Place: (A small confined court on the east side of
Heath Street, with adjoining property fronting Heath Street,
and a small cul-de-sac part of Hampstead Square.)