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preserved to Willesden have been felled. In the
garden cities less bountifully supplied their preservation
is an object of the designer. The Housing
and Town Planning Act has come late for Willesden,
but not too late to preserve much of the natural
beauty which unimaginative and unordered development
would otherwise unquestionably destroy.
APPLICATION TO EXISTING HOUSES.
I have dealt first with Pt. II. of the Act, because
as I have said it is to a rapidly developing district
such as Willesden, a measure of the first importance.
But there are provisions in other parts of the Act
which while of narrower import, effect radical changes
of procedure in respect of unhealthy dwellings which
should prove of great utility.
Section 14 imposes upon landlords an obligation
to which they were subject under the Principal Act
(Housing of Working Classes Act, 1890, Sect. 75)
only in respect of houses let at a rent not exceeding
the sum named as the limit for the composition of