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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.
A Rent Officer, 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,
was appointed last year in accordance with the provisions of the Act.
(See Statistical Tables 40 and 41)
LAND CHARGES
In pursuance of the provisions of the Land Charges Act, 1925, 7,975 inquiries
were received from the Town Clerk concerning outstanding notices, smoke control
areas and clearance programmes, in relation to all types of property in the
borough. The necessary searches were made and the 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.
During the year the Minister agreed to Discontinuance Orders on two old
established unsatisfactory sites and to the establishment of a fully equipped residential
site provided and controlled by the local authority. Plans for this new site
were in preparation at the end of the year and were, in fact, formulated early in
1968.
Open spaces and wide grass verges on the arterial road in the area continue
to attract itinerant caravans, but because some of the spaces are now being developed
and a considerable length of dual carriageway has been completed, the
problem is diminishing, and so too the complaints of annoyance caused by these
itinerants.
The problem of the itinerant caravanner is a major social problem and a
national one. Wherever they go there is a constant pressure to move them. They
are not wanted and there is nowhere to go. The Minister of Housing and Local
Government promised the provision of sites this year but there is some reluctance
on the part of local authorities to provide them.
The suggestion is for a number of small sites spread throughout the country
but apart from the financial aspect there is the difficulty of finding sites acceptable
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