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During the year 13 ice-cream vendors were prosecuted under
the local Act for sounding chimes on Sundays, of the offenders,
twelve were fined ten shillings, and the other one pound.
Ten ice-cream vendors were prosecuted under the Noise
Abatement Act for using chimes after 7 p.m., each offender was
fined ten shillings.
8. HOUSING ADMINISTRATION
(a) General
Surveys continue to be made in order to deal with substandard
and unfit houses. During the year 19 unfit houses were
demolished, demolition orders had been made in respect of eight
individual houses and a further seven had been represented and
were waiting final consideration by the Committee at the end of
the year.
(b) Redevelopment
(i) The Waterloo Road Redevelopment Scheme is progressing
satisfactorily and the end of development is in sight. The
second eleven-storey block of flats has been completed
and the flats are now occupied. Progress was being
made at the end of the year with regard to old people's
dwellings and three-bedroom houses to complete the
scheme.
(ii) The Highfield Road Redevelopment scheme is now under
way, during the year 70 prefabricated bungalows were
demolished and 48 flats were completed and occupied.
Work on this scheme is still proceeding.
(iii) Future Plans
Three further schemes for redevelopment in different
areas have been approved in principle by he Council
and final details are being prepared.
Surveys have continued in the older parts of the
Borough and plans are in preparation for redevelopment
schemes over the next twenty years. One or two areas
will have to be given urgent consideration in the near
future, the main difficulty will be finding sites to rehouse
the tenants in order to commence demolition.
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