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Application was also received for a certificate to be granted for the
premises, Nos. 215-217, Bow Eoad.
The premises were inspected and certain sanitary defects found.
Under these circumstances a certificate was not granted. An intimation
notice was served upon the owner and the London County Council was
also communicated with on the matter.
After the repairs had been executed at Nos. 215-217, Bow Road, a
common lodging-house, a further application was made under Section 35
of the Housing, Town Planning, etc., Act, 1909, for exemption from
inhabited house duty. The premises were inspected and no nuisance
found to exist thereon. A certificate was granted on the 3rd May that
the common lodging-house mentioned above was solely constructed and
used to afford suitable accommodation for the lodgers, and that due
provision was made for their sanitary requirements.
Proposed Regulations as to Underground Rooms habitually
used as Sleeping Places.
On the 8th December, 1910, the Council approved draft Regulations
under the Housing and Town Planning Act, 1909, with reference to
Underground Sleeping Rooms, for submission to the Local Government
Board for approval.
The Local Government Board suggested certain amendments in the
Regulations to bring them into conformity with approved models. The
amendments were chiefly in the form of expression and make the Regulations
more definite. The Public Health and Housing Committee approved,
on the 14th February, 1911, the Regulations, as amended, viz.:—
METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR.
Housing, Town Planning, etc., Act, 1909.
Propos'd Regulations us to Underground Rooms habitually used
as Sleeping Places.
Whereas by Section 17 of the Housing, Town Planning, etc.,
Act, 1909, it is enacted as follows:—
Sub-section 7. A room habitually used as a sleeping-place,
the surface of the floor of which is more than three feet below the