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SECTION IY.
HOUSING AND TOWN-PLANNING.
The Census returns show that on April 2nd, 1911, there were 11,023
dwellings (12,491 separate occupiers), 763 unoccupied, and 27 in the course of
erection in the district.
Building By-laws.—The Council's " By-laws with respect to the New
Streets and Buildings " were revised in 1904, and sealed by the Local Government
Board on the 8th June, 1904. Any contraventions of By-law 113 are
reported to the Plans Committee by the Architect, and all correspondence and
particulars connected with the contraventions are laid before them. The
Committee then decide whether they shall recommend to the Council the
prosecution of the offenders. No prosecutions have taken place since 1907.
In April, Mr. Herbert Samuel, President of the Local Government Board,
appointed a Departmental Committee " to consider the control at present
exercised in England and Wales over the erection of buildings and the construction
of streets by means of by-laws and local regulations, and their effect
on building and development, and to make recommendations."
The Committee consists of the following 12 members:—
Mr. J. Herbert Lewis, M.P. (Chairman).
Sir Randolf L. Baker, M.P.
Mr. A. E. Collins, City Engineer, Norwich.
Mr. Eustace Fiennes, M.P.
Mr. E. J. Gowen, Clerk to Croydon Rural District Council.
Mr. E. V. Hiley, Town Clerk of Birmingham.
Mr. W. T. Jerred, C.B-, Assistant Secretary, L.G.B.
Mr. F. H. Harding Newman, land agent.
Mr. J. Pointer, M.P.
Mr. W. T. Postlethwaite, Clerk to Swinton and Pendlebury Urban
District Council.
Mr. Raymond Unwin, Architect.
Mr. Henry Vivian, Chairman of Co-partnership Tenants, Ltd.
With A. N. C. Shelley, Esq., of the Local Government Board, as Secretary.
You will see that the composition of the Committee is as follows:—four
members of Parliament, one garden city or suburb developer, three clerks
(legal advisers to Sanitary Authorities), one land agent, one engineer (municipal),
one Local Government Board representative and one architect (private).