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B. Proceedings under Public Health Acts:—
(1) Number of dwelling-houses in respect of
which notices were served requiring defects
to be remedied 54
(2) Number of dwelling-houses in which defects
were remedied after service of formal
notices:—
(a) By owners 53
(b) By Local Authority in default of
owners —
C. Proceedings under Sections 11 and 13 of the
Housing Act, 1936:—
(1) Number of dwelling-houses in respect of which
Demolition Orders were made 8
(2) Number of dwelling-houses demolished in
pursuance of Demolition Orders —
D. Proceedings under Section 12 of the Housing
Act, 1936:—
(1) Number of separate tenements or
ground rooms in respect of which Closing
Orders were made
(2) Number of separate tenements or
ground rooms in respect of which Closing
Orders were determined, the tenement or
room having been rendered fit
ACTION UNDER THE HOUSING ACT, 1936.
Section 1.
In January Clearance Orders were confirmed in respect of six
groups of properties which were represented in 1938, namely :—
1-5, Brewery Cottages; 1—4, Pleasant Place; 2-40 (even numbers),
Headstone Drive; 61, 63 and 65, College Hill Road ; the two
cottages in No. 3, High Street, Stanmore, Order; and the four
cottages in No. 4, High Street, Stanmore, Order.
Of the 112 properties included in the area covered by Nos. 1,
2, 3 and 4 Marlborough Road Areas, only four in Shelley Road
and one in Marlborough Road were approved by the Minister.
Up to the end of the year, then, a total of 21 Clearance
Areas had been confirmed, the total number of properties affected
being 156.
Of the houses the subject of previously confirmed Clearance
Orders which were still standing at the beginning of the year, the
two Marsh Road Cottages ; Nos. 81, 83 and 85, Greenford Road ;
Nos. 54, 56 and 58, Middle Road ; Stalford House ; Kirby and
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