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Improvement Grants
(I) Standard
Owner I occupier Tenanted
Number of Applications Received 66 21
Number of Applications Approved 61 19
Number of Applications Refused 3 1
Amount paid in grants £8,743 10s. Od.
Amenities provided (a) fixed bath 53
(b) shower —
(c) wash hand basin 62
(d) hot water supply (to any fittings) 70
(e) water closet (1) within dwelling 62
(f) food store 52
(2) Discretionary
Owner / occupier Tenanted
Number of Applications Received 90 30
Number of Applications Approved 65 29
Number of Applications Refused 8 2
Amount paid in grants .... £25,259 5s. 8d.
Compulsory Improvement
A start was made during the year to secure the improvement
of the tenanted dwellings situated in the Bromley No. 1 Compulsory
Improvement Area. The area in question had been declared
an Improvement Area by the former Bromley Borough Council
under Part II of the Housing Act, 1964, which gives power to local
authorities to require the provision of an internal water closet,
bath, wash hand-basin and sink with hot and cold water supply,
and a ventilated food store, in tenanted dwellings which lack these
facilities. The area comprised the following roads :— Walpole
Road (part), Addison Road, Bloomfield Road, Cowper Road,
Cowper Close, Chantry Lane, Chatterton Road (part), Southlands
Road (part) and Bromley Common (part). There are approximately
325 houses in the area, 148 of which were tenanted, and it was
estimated that approximately 96 lacked the standard amenities.
Although a preliminary inspection of the houses had been
carried out as part of a survey of a much larger area undertaken
by the Health Department of the Bromley Borough, it was
necessary to re-inspect all the tenanted houses in order to confirm
the conditions and to prepare a specification of works of the
proposed improvement. At the same time the tenants were informed
of the Council's proposals and the tenants' views were obtained.
It was apparent from a first study of the Act that the compulsory
improvement legislation would be difficult to operate and this,
indeed, proved to be the case. The result was that only very slow