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be due to the discouraging effect of the rent limits applied to these
cases by the Rent Act 1957, it is pleasing to note that the House Purchase
and Housing Bill introduced in Parliament at the end of the year
contained provisions for reverting to the previous practice of rent
fixing by the local authority.
"With regard to the improvement grant scheme generally there
was a sharp rise in the number of enquiries and applications towards
the end of the year. This was partly due to the publicity given in the
press to the Bill already mentioned with its new scheme of "standard
grants" and to some extent by the Council's pamphlet, "About the
Rates" distributed to each household, which referred to the grant
scheme."