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used for storing "building materials but will be demolished as
soon as the land adjoining has been developed.
Barracks Flats.
Six families were removed from these flats and rehoused in
Council houses, thus enabling six further flats to be converted
for occupation by aged couples, and making nine converted at the
and of the year.
When the Grange Estate houses are ready for occupation the
remaining nin6 flats will be dealt with.
There is a big demand for these flats, which are let at
6/per week.
HOUSING ACT 1935.
OVERCROWDING.
The overcrowding survey revealed 37 houses - 13 owned by the
Council and 24 privately owned - to be overcrowded. They were
reported upon to the Council and Ministry of Health, and at a
later date the Council forwarded their proposals for rehousing these
overcrowded families.
The Act also makes it the duty of the Landlord of a house
occupied by a person of the working olasses, to insert in the Rent
Book a summary of the Housing Act 1935, and the Permitted Number
for the house. The Landlord can apply to the Local Authority for
this Permitted Number.
Applications in respect of 255 houses have been dealt with
during the past year.
In addition to the above houses, a further 144 new houses have
been measured and added to those originally surveyed, bringing the
total to 3504. 154 visits were made for this purpose.
With regard to the 37 cases of overcrowding revealed by the
original survey, 9 were relieved in 1936, 5 in 1937 and 6 during
the past year, leaving 17 cases still to be dealt with at the end
of 1938, namely:-
Two families of five, requiring Three Bed Non-Parlour Type of