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agreed on the 26th February that the owner should be invited to attend
the meeting of the Public Health and Housing Committee on the 7th
April, to show cause why Demolition Orders should not be made. The
Committee interviewed the owner and were of opinion he had not used
due diligence to render the houses fit for human habitation, and the
Closing Orders having remained in operation for a period exceeding
three months the Committee considered the Council should make
Demolition Orders. In the event of the owner undertaking to render
the houses fit for human habitation, the Council might subsequently
postpone the operation of the orders for such time, not exceeding six
months, as might be necessary for giving the owner an opportunity of
executing the necessary works.
The Committee also interviewed the Surveyor to the Ironmongers'
Company, who are the Freeholders, and the Surveyor confirmed the
representations of the Medical Officer that the houses were unfit for
human habitation. The Committee recommended the Council that the
Closing Orders, made by the Council on the 6th November, 1913, in respect
of Nos. 232, 234 and 236, West Ferry Road, having remained operative
for a period exceeding three months, and such dwelling houses not having
been rendered fit for human habitation, the Seal of the Council be affixed
to Demolition Orders, under Section 18 of the Housing and Town Planning
Act, 1909, in respect of such dwelling houses.
A Closing Order was made in respect of No. 1, Victoria Cottages, on
the 6th November, 1913, and on the 26th February the Council agreed
that the owner should be invited to attend the meeting of the Committee
on the 7th April, to show cause why a Demolition Order should not be
made. The owner, however, did not appear, and no steps had been taken
by him to render the house fit for habitation. The Committee recommended
the Council that the Seal of the Council be affixed to Demolition
Orders, under Section 18 of the Housing and Town Planning Act, 1909,
in respect of No. 1, Victoria Cottages.
Demolition of Premises; Housing of the Working Classes Act,
1890, Section 34 (1), and Housing of the Working Classes Act,
1903, Section 9.
Demolition Orders were made by the Council under the Housing
and Town Planning, etc., Act, 1909, on the 20th November, 1913, in
respect of Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16 and 17, Victoria Cottages,
Bow. The period of three months given under the Act for compliance
with the Orders had expired, and the owner having neither appealed
against the Orders nor carried them into effect, the Committee were of
opinion the Council should proceed to demolish the houses in question