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Local Authority Accommodation
The Housing Manager has kindly supplied the following
information:-
New completions 22
Relets 455
477
Homeless families rehoused 38
Rehoused from Reception Centres 23
Rehoused from Housing Waiting List 312
Rehoused under Industrial Selection 249
Scheme in New and Expanding Towns
Further Warden controlled flats for pensioners were
started on two sites and these will provide a total of 82
such units to be completed in 1973.
Housing Finance Act
The Council implemented the provisions of the Housing
Finance Act in respect of the New National Rent Rebate
Scheme and the new assessment of rents as from the 2nd
October, 1972,
Tenants Associations
During the course of this year, quarterly meetings have
been arranged between the Housing & Health Services Committee
and representatives of the Tenants Associations within
the Borough, This is in accordance with the wishes of the
Council to involve tenant participation in the management of
the Council's housing stock and the Council also expressed
a wish to encourage the formation of new Associations for
those estates which are currently not being represented by a
Tenants Association.
Broxhill Caravan Site. The Council agreed a programme for
the reorganisation of this residential caravan site to bring
the site up to the prescribed standards Seventy caravan
standings will be provided, together with additional car
parking facilities and other associated amenities for the
better management of the site. This programme is being
undertaken by the Controller of Works
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