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Guildhall on December 10th; the Lord Mayor presided and invited
appointment of delegates. The Public Health and Housing Committee
appointed the Chairman and the Medical Officer of Health to attend the
Conference.
At the Conference on Town Planning convened by the Garden Cities
and Town Planning Association, it was agreed that a Central Consultative
Town Planning Body should be formed for the purpose of giving advice
and assistance upon all matters connected with Town Planning and the
better development of our towns. The Council was invited to send
representatives to the first meeting of the proposed Consultative Body.
The Public Health and Housing Committee recommended that Mr.
Councillor A. H. Warren be appointed the Council's representative at the
first meeting of the proposed Consultative Body on Town Planning.
Housing, Town Planning, &c., Act, 1909.
(9 Edw. 7. Chap. 44.)
An Act to amend the Law relating to the Housing of the Working
Classes, to provide for the making of Town Planning schemes,
and to make further provision with respect to the appointment
and duties of County Medical Officers of Health, and to provide
for the establishment of Public Health and Housing Committees
of County Councils.
This Act was passed on the 3rd December, 1909, and its short title
and extent enacted by Section 76 (1) is as follows:-
This Act may be cited as the Housing Town Planning, &c.,
Act, 1909, and Part I. of this Act shall be construed as one with
the Housing of the Working Classes Acts, 1890 to 1903, and that
Part of this Act and those Acts may be cited together as the
Housing of the Working Classes Acts, 1890 to 1909.
The Sections which affect the Metropolitan Borough Councils are as
follow:—