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6. Bye-laws relating to houses, to houses let in lodgings, and to tents, vans,
sheds, etc.
No comments in addition to those already made in dealing with houses let in
lodging's elsewhere in this report need be made. There are no tents, vans, sheds,
etc., within the Borough.
7. General observations on housing matters not already covered, and on any
difficulties experienced in housing administration and the measures taken to meet
them.
In what has gone before in this section and other parts of this report, the
ground appears to have been fairly well covered. Many difficulties in relation to
housing administration arise because of intrinsic peculiarities of the Borough and
must be dealt with as they are encountered.
HOUSING ACT, 1930 (Sec. 25) (2).
Form of Quinquennial Statement.
NOTE.—In this table no account is taken of housing accommodation provided
by the Council otherwise than under the Act of 1924 or of re-housing accommodation
provided for purposes other than those of the Act of 1930. If work of this kind is
anticipated a brief note of its extent should be appended.
Name of Local Authority Borough of St. Marylebone.
Population (estimated figure for middle of 1929) 102,400
Number of inhabited houses (according to rate books) 19,447
(a). Estimated production of houses by the local authority
during the next five years Nil.
(b). Estimated production of new houses of working class type
by private enterprise during the next five years:—
(i) with subsidy under the Act of 1924
(ii) under arrangement made under Section 29 of the
Act of 1930 See NOTE 1.
(iii) otherwise
(c). Estimated number of new houses to be allocated by the local
authority during the next five years to the purposes of the
Housing Act, 1930 (i.e., the purposes mentioned in (e) and (f)
(d).Estimated number of new houses to be allocated by the sec NOTE 2.
local authority during the next five years to the purposes of
the Act of 1924 (i.e., new housing)
Total
(e). Estimated number of houses to be demolished during the
next five years:—
(i) in clearance areas 207
(ii) in improvement areas
(a) for opening the area
(b) as unfit houses — See NOTE 3.
(iii) individual houses outside clearance and improvement
areas
Total 207
(f). Estimated number of persons to be displaced during the next
five years:—
(i) by any of the processes mentioned in (e) 1,797
(ii) to abate overcrowding in improvement areas See NOTE 3.
Total 1,797