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105
Water Supply
Provided 4
Pipes repaired or renewed 15
Storage tanks repaired or renewed 4
Ball valves repaired or renewed 9
Domestic boilers repaired 2
General Items
Wallplaster repaired 96
Ceiling plaster repaired 64
Floors repaired 42
Rooms cleansed or decorated 18
Windows and doors repaired 47
Glazing repaired 13
Staircase repaired 7
Fire surrounds and grates repaired or renewed 5
Chimney flues cleansed 4
Yard paving and drainage repaired 4
Dustbins provided 33
Nuisances from animals abated 8
Noxious accumulations removed 41
Overcrowding abated 3
Miscellaneous items 63
STATUTORY NOTICES
When nuisances or other defects are found in dwelling houses,
either as a result of routine inspection or following a complaint,
the owner or agent is requested informally to apply a remedy. It
is only after an appropriate interval and when this request is not
acceded to, that it is necessary to obtain Committee sanction to the
service of Statutory Notices. It was necessary to issue 474 informal
notices and failure to achieve results made it necessary for 23 to be
reported to the Committee for further action. This is a higher
proportion than that experienced by most of the constituent
authorities and arises to a considerable extent from the type of
letting found in the Penge Area.
COMMON LODGING HOUSES
There are two registered Common Lodging Houses in the
area, situated at:—
36 Arpley Road, Penge,
where provision is made for the accommodation of 33 men, and at
19 Lower Road, St. Mary Cray, Orpington,
where provision is made for the accommodation of 24 men. The
premises provide sufficient accommodation in so far as there are
usually a few vacant beds.
The premises are regularly visited and during the year 32
inspections were made. There were no infringements of the conditions
of registration.