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Preferential Housing on health grounds.
All the five cases investigated were found to come within the
Council's Points Scheme.
Standard Grants and Improvement Grants.
In conjunction with officers of the Borough Engineer & Surveyor's
Department, the Housing Inspector inspected 37 premises regarding which
applications had been made to the Council for standard or improvement
grants.
Temporary Hutments.
The remaining hutments owned by the Borough Council were demolished
during the year.
Requisitioned Premises.
The number of dwellings remaining under requisition by the Borough
Council at the end of the year was 14, involving fifteen lettings. The
Council purchased 226 formerly requisitioned houses, and of these 77
were converted or improved during the year.
New Housing.
During the year, 456 new dwellings were completed in the Borough:
139 by the Borough Council, 313 by the County Council and 4 by private
enterprise. (See Appendix, page 75).
A total of 7,162 new permanent dwellings have been constructed in
the Borough since the War; 4,696 by the London County Council, 2,266 by
the Borough Council, 69 by the Corporation of London and 131 by private
enterprise.
Work was also begun in the Borough during the year on the tallest
block of flats yet under construction by the London County Council, a
19-storey block, 180 feet high, which will contain 73 flats.
Caravans.
Several times during the year residential caravans were reported
to have arrived in the Borough and parked on bombed sites. These were
visited by the Housing Inspector immediately after the information was
received, and the occupiers were persuaded to vacate the sites.
The London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1959, in Sections
22 and 23, made provision for Borough Councils to grant licences
authorising persons to use or allow to be. used land as sites for
moveable dwellings, and on and after 1st October, 1960, it became an
offence to use or allow to be used land for this purpose without such
licence. The Council has adopted standards for use in licensing
caravan sites.
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