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The following is a summary of the position at the end of the year:—
(i) Number of Closing Orders made during 1963 8
(ii) Number of properties in respect of which action preliminary
to the making of a Closing Order was taken 8
(iii) Number of properties represented for action in the Clearance
provision of the Housing Acts 7
(iv) Number of unfit properties demolished during the year 6
(v) Number of Closing Orders determined 9
(vi) Number of families rehoused from properties the subject of
either Clearance Closing or Demolition Orders 20
(vii) Number of unfit properties occupied 31.12.63 either
chased, or being purchased by the Council or the subject
of Clearance Closing or Demolition Orders 46
The eight properties made the subject of Closing Orders were
259-271 Pinner Road, 90 Rickmansworth Road.
The six demolished were 34-42 Palmerston Road and 2 Stanmore
Hill.
Overcrowding.
On the 1st January 1963 the number of known cases of Statutory
Overcrowding in the Borough was twenty-five. During the year eight new
cases were added to the Register and over the same period fourteen were
removed, the number of cases on the 1st January 1964 being nineteen.
This figure has only been improved upon once, namely, during 1941 when
the number of cases on the register was 17.
Overcrowding was first defined by the Housing Act 1935 and since
the date on which this Act came into force 2,454 cases of Statutory
Overcrowding have been abated. Of the fourteen that were abated during
the year five were the result of re-housing by the Council.
CERTIFICATES OF DISREPAIR
The following is a summary of the applications received for Certificates
of Disrepair under the Rent Act:—
Number of applications for Certificates of Disrepair 81
Number of Undertakings accepted from owners 43
Number of Certificates cancelled upon application 3
Number of applications for a Certificate as to the remedying
of defects 25