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5, Elizabeth Place, High Street, Woolwich
6, ditto ditto
No. 1 Connor's Cottages, was in an exceedingly damp
state, and the drainage was unsatisfactory. A damp-course
was put in all round and the house was redrained into a
new cesspool in accordance with the by-laws.
The other houses were in a dirty and dilapidated condition,
and No. 1 Albert House, was very dark. Nos. 1,
9, and 10, are separate flats of a block dwelling, and could
not therefore be demolished without levelling the whole
block to the ground. No. 1 is unfit for human habitation
according to the regulations made under Section 17, Housing
and Town Planning Act, but Nos. 9 and 10 only require
renovation and repairs. The entry to Eliazbeth Place has
been boarded up, so these cottages do not appear likely to
become a nuisance to the neighbourhood.
The following regulations under Section 17 (7), Housing
and Town Planning Act, were passed by your Council in
July, 1910, and have been approved by the Local Government
Board:—
Regulations prescribed by the Mayor, Aldermen, and
Councillors of the Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich,
under Section 17 (7) of the Housing, Town Planning,
&c., Act, 1909, with which a room habitually
used as a sleeping place, the surface of the floor of
which is more than three feet below the surface pf
the part of the street adjoining or nearest to the
room shall comply:—
(1) Such room shall have in every part thereof at
least three feet of its height above the surface of