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Slum Clearance.
Duting 1959, 107 hutments in the East Wickham Clearance
Areas were demolished and the occupants rehoused by
the Council.
Improvement Grants.
Discretionary Standard
Number of applications for improvement
grants 41 21
Number of applications approved
9 10
Total cost of approved expense
of improvements £4,999 12 4 £805
Total approved costs on which
grants were made in 16
cases (excluding the nine
above) £3,556 13 3 —
Total amount of grants made in
those 16 cases £1,778 6 7 —
Rent Act, 1957.
Number of applications for certificates of disrepair 7
Number of decisions not to issue certificates 1
Number of decisions to issue certificates 6
(a) in respect of some but not all defects 2
(b) in respect of all defects 4
Number of undertakings given by landlords 3
Number of undertakings refused by the Local
Authority —
Number of Certificates issued 3
Applications by landlords for cancellation of certificates
4
Objections by tenants to cancellation of certificates 1
Decisions by Local Authority to cancel in spite of
tenants' objection —
Certificates cancelled 3
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