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Housing.
Further progress has been made with the inspection of properties under
Sections 17 and 19 of the Housing Act, 1930, with a view to having unfit
houses demolished or put into a habitable state of repair.
Demolition Orders were made in respect of 6 houses and one house was
closed.
A representation was made in respect of an unhealthy area in the
Child's Hill District, which embraced 22 houses and 46 tenements. In connection
therewith an enquiry was held by the Ministry of Health and the
Council's application for a Compulsory Purchase Order was confirmed.
House-to-house inspection work has been continued, and the notices
served have been most satisfactorily complied with, resulting in the securing of
a very large amount of sanitary improvements.
The Ministry of Health approved a scheme, adopted by the Council, for
the erection of 138 houses on the Reets Farm Site, a portion of these being for
the use of tenants displaced from the Clearance Area referred to, and also
tenants of individual houses dealt with under the Housing Act, 1930.
1.—Inspection of Dwelling-houses during the Year:—
(1) (a) Total number of dwelling-houses inspected
for housing defects (under Public Health
or Housing Acts) 932
(b) Number of inspections made for the purpose
3,500
(2) (a) Number of dwelling-houses (included un- I
der sub-head (1) above) which were
inspected and recorded under the Housing
Consolidated Regulations, 1925 132
(b) Number of inspections made for the purpose
947
(3) Number of dwelling-houses found to be in a
state so dangerous or injurious to health as
to be unfit for human habitation 9