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Town Planning.
Two hundred and twenty-nine (two hundred and eight)
applications to the London County Council under the Town and
Country Planning Act, 1947, for the conversion and alteration of
premises, change of user and continuation of consent were referred
to the Council for examination and comment. As a result of the
Council's observations, permission was refused for certain basement
rooms to be used for human habitation where the rooms did not
conform to the statutes and regulations in force in the Borough.
Housing Accommodation: Preferential Treatment.
During the year 274 (490) medical certificates were referred to
me by the Borough Director of Housing for "pointing". This
arrangement enables the necessary degree of preference to be given
to each certificate as well as bringing to notice sanitary defects
which might otherwise have escaped detection and in respect of
which no previous complaint had been received.
Land Charges Act, 1925.
Under the above-mentioned Act it is incumbent on the local
authority to keep a register of local land charges. Houses included
in clearance, improvement and redevelopment areas must be
registered, as well as houses subject to repair notices under Part II
of the Housing Act, 1936, and houses on which closing or demolition
orders have been made.
Some 1,305 (1,514) enquiries were referred to the Public Health
Department during the year asking for details of notices
outstanding and orders in operation under the Housing Act. At the
same time particulars were called for of sanitary or other notices
outstanding on the properties concerned.
Housing Enquiries.
Some 200 (350) communications were received during the year
from the Borough Director of Housing, the County Divisional
Medical Officer, the County Director of Housing and from other
authorities, requesting information on the housing conditions of
persons applying for rehousing on grounds of overcrowding,
insanitary conditions and ill-health. Such information enables the
enquirer to assess the degree of priority to be given to the
applicants concerned. In each case a visit was made by the Public
Health Inspector and a report furnished.
New Accommodation.