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open spaces. Where the local authority is implementing, or intends to implement,
a smoke control programme, it may be practicable to make an improvement area
also a smoke control area."
Two improvement areas, one comprising 264 dwellings and the other 261
dwellings, were designated, and preliminary surveys made during the year.
The Rent Act, 1957, has amongst other objectives the aim of enabling landlords,
by means of an increase of rent, to keep houses still the subject of rent control
in a fair state of repair. Tenants have the right to apply to a local authority for
a Certificate of Disrepair which, when issued, enables the tenant to abate the increased
rent until the required repairs have been done.
During 1965, twelve Certificates of Disrepair were issued and seven undertakings
by owners to carry out repairs accepted. No cancellations of certificates were issued
during the year.
The Rent Act, 1965, came into force during the latter part of the year and
included provision for the regulation of tenancies and rents, security of tenure and
restrictions from eviction without due process of the law.
Provision for the registration of rents is made in Part II, and the London
Borough of Enfield is a registration area for the purposes of the Act.
Rent Officers, whose function it is to determine a fair rent and register it as the
rent of a dwelling house, on receipt of an application on the prescribed form, are
to be appointed for each registration area.
(Statistical Tables 41, 42—see pages 134, 135).
LAND CHARGES
In pursuance of the provisions of the Land Charges Act, 1925, 7,418 enquiries
were received from the Town Clerk concerning outstanding notices and smoke
control areas in relation to all types of property in the Borough. The necessary
searches were made and information supplied.
CARAVANS
The Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act, 1960, makes provision for
the licensing and control of sites by local authorities and the imposition by them of
standards of amenity and hygiene.
There is only one licensed caravan site in the Borough. This well run site is
situated in the Green Belt area and provides semi-permanent living accommodation.
Two old established but unsatisfactory sites within the Borough are scheduled
to be replaced by a fully equipped residential site provided and controlled by the
Council.
The considerable number of open spaces and the wide grass verges of the A.10
Trunk Road in the Borough have attracted all types of caravan dwellers to set up
unauthorised caravan sites especially during the Spring and Summer months, when
they are en route from one place of casual employment to another.
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