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State grants. The Council's contributions towards housing schemes of the City
Corporation and metropolitan borough councils are limited to approved cases, and are
supplemental to the State grants which are paid direct to those authorities. As
regards houses provided by private enterprise, the total amount of the grant in aid
in each approved case is made direct by the Council, and the State contribution is
subsequently recovered from the Government, the net expenditure by the Council
being the difference between the Council's grant and that made by the State. Particulars
of the revised scale of grants by the Council and by the State in respect of
houses (which include flats or tenements) not completed before 1st October, 1927,
are as follows :—
Nature of grant.
Grant in respect of each house.
Statgrant.
Council's grant.
A. Housing, etc., Act, 1923.
(i.) Grant to City Corporation
and metropolitan borough
councils.
(ii.) Grant to purchaser or builder
of new house for own occupation.
(iii.) Grant to person or bodies
maintaining houses for letting
at approved weekly
rent.
B. Housing (Financial Provisions) Act,
1924.
(i.) Grant to City Corporation
and metropolitan borough
councils.
(ii.) Grant to public utility
societies, or the like, maintaining
houses for letting,
subject to the "special
conditions" prescribed by
the Act.
£4 a year for 20 years.
£4 a year for 20 years.
£4 a year for 20 years.
£7 10s. a year for 40 years.
£7 10s. a year for 40 years.
Not exceeding £2 a year
for 20 years (supplemental
to State grant).
Lump sum of £50 (including
State grant).
£6 a year for 20 years
(including State grant).
Not exceeding £1 17s. 6d.
a year for 40 years
(supplemental to State
grant).
Not exceeding £9 7s. 6d.
a year for 40 years
(including State grant).
On 4th May, 1927, the Council decided, at the request of the Minister of Health,
not to issue certificates of qualification for grant in future in respect of houses provided
by private enterprise, the freehold cost or selling price of which exceeded £600,
exclusive of the amount of the subsidy. The maximum selling price previously
approved by the Council with the consent of the Minister was £650, exclusive of
subsidy.
Maximum
selling price
of houses.
Up to 31st December, 1927, the Council had approved proposals submitted by
private builders for the erection of 2,617 houses and flats to qualify for subsidy on
completion, 438 of which will be maintained for letting. The number of houses
approved during the year was 266.
Houses
approved for
grant.
Certificates of personal qualification to receive the promised subsidy were
issued during the year to prospective owner occupiers of 307 houses included in those
mentioned above, the total number of personal certificates issued since the inception
of the scheme un to 31st December. 1927. beine 1,802.
Legislation.
The power conferred on the Council under Section 39 of the London County
Council (General Powers) Act, 1926, to provide and maintain in connection with any
of its housing schemes in the County of London any building or part of a building
adapted for use for any commercial purpose, has been extended by Section 60 of the
London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1927, so as to include buildings,
outside as well as inside the County of London, subject to a proviso that no such
building shall be erected by the Council outside the county, except with the consent