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HOUSING
Details of Redevelopment Work carried out during 196b
3 Clearance Areas were resolved involving 18 premises.
4 Compulsory Purchase Orders were confirmed involving 136 premises.
No Demolition Order was made.
No Closing Order was made.
30 Undertakings not to re-let until premises were made fit, were accepted
1 Undertaking was cancelled - premises being made fit
345 Premises were demolished
241 New flats were completed
1,165 New flats were in course of erection
101 Routine inspections under Section 3, Housing Act, 1957.
Loans and Grants
1 Application for Standard Improvement Grants was received and approved,
2 Applications for Discretionary Improvement Grants were received and approved.
Underground Rooms
During 1964 representations were made to the Public Health Committee
resulting in -
2 Closing Orders being made
9 Undertakings being accepted not to re-let until premises rendered fit,
Derelict sites
Derelict sites throughout the Borough still present many problems but
gradually are disappearing as new buildings take their place. Their value as
parking places for cars now that parking meters are in operation in Shoreditch
has greatly increased and this automatically results in keeping many sites
presentable which would otherwise develop into refuse dumps.
Drainage plans
All drainage plans submitted to the local authority are perused by the
Public Health Inspectors before they are submitted to the appropriate committee
for approval.
During the year 78 plans were perused and numerous interviews have
taken place with architects, builders, owners and others concerned in the
works involved
Overcrowding and Preferential Treatment
At the end of 1963 the number of overcrowded cases on the Public Health
Departmental Register was 47 and the number of cases on the Register for
Preferential Treatment on medical grounds was 9.
No new case of overcrowded conditions was added to the register during
the year but 29 families were removed having been rehoused or found alternative
accommodation themselves
The number of cases remaining on the Overcrowding Register at the end
of the year therefore was 18 the number remaining on the Preferential
Treatment Register being 9
16 visits of inspection were made
Rent Act 1957
No application was received during the year under the Rent Act 1957.
Housing Repairs and Rents Act 1954
No application was made to the local authority under the Housing Repairs
and Rents Act 1954 during the year