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Slum Clearance.
During 1958, 30 hutments in the East Wickham Clearance
Areas were demolished and the occupants rehoused by
the Council.
Improvement Grants.
Number of applications for improvement
grants 25
Number of applications approved 3
Total cost of approved expense of improvements
for those three cases £661
Total approved costs on which grants
were made in 12 cases (excluding the
three above) £4,659 9 3
Total amount of grants made in those
12 cases £1,929 11 6
Rent Act ,1957.
Number of applications for certificates of disrepair 36
Number of decisions not to issue certificates 6
Number of decisions to issue certificates 41
(a) in respect of some but not all defects 30
(b) in respect of all defects 11
Number of undertakings given by landlords 23
Number of undertakings refused by the Local
Authority —
Number of Certificates issued 22
Applications by landlords for cancellation of certificates
21
Objections by tenants to cancellation of certificates 7
Decisions by Local Authority to cancel in spite of
tenants' objection 2
Certificates cancelled 16
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