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Housing Act, 1936
Unfit Houses
The following premises were dealt with as follows :—
Demolition Orders :
Nil.
Closing Orders:
56 Beulah Road
46 Pembroke Road (Basement)
Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1953.
Under the provisions of this Act, Closing Order was made in
respect of the whole of the following premises : —
50 St. Stephen's Road
Clearance Areas
In November 1953 the Council defined four clearance areas
comprising 41 dwellings in Back, Collard, Short and Vallentin
Roads (Wood Street Ward). These, together with 10 other
dwellings and six cleared sites were included in two Compulsory
Purchase Orders.
The Ministry's Inquiry was held on the 11th January, 1955,
and the Orders were confirmed on the 8th June, 1955, with
modifications in respect of eight dwellings which were excluded
from the Clearance Areas, were coloured "grey" and described as
land which the Council was authorised to purchase compulsorily.
The preliminary survey of 119 dwellings in Frederick Street,
Grange and Lynmouth, Roads was completed in September, 1953,
and an official representation was made in February, 1954, the
Council declaring the area so defined to be a Clearance Area and
approving a Compulsory Purchase Order which also included the
cleared sites of three houses in Lynmouth Road. The Ministry's
Inquiry was held on the 8th February, 1955, and the Order was
confirmed on the 10th June, 1955. Two dwellings were coloured
grey "with authority to purchase and 66 were excluded in view
of previous purchase by the Council.
The preliminary survey of unfit dwellings in the Chingford
Lane area of the Hale End Ward was completed in December, 1953,
and January, 1954. An official representation in regard to two
clearance areas was made in April, 1954. That in respect of the
Chingford Lane and Payze's Cottages area comprised 17 dwellings
and the Council's Compulsory Purchase Order was confirmed by
the Minister without modification on the 11th March, 1955.
In regard to the second area, i.e., Mill Lane, The Square and
Farey's Row (comprising 15 dwellings and two parcels of land, the
Ministry's Inquiry was held on the 24th May, 1955 and the