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(b) DETAILED
(i) Housing Acts, 1957/72
(a) Individual Houses - Demolition/Closing Orders
Undertakings accepted (Section 16) 1
Closing Orders made Nil
Demolition Orders made (Section 17) 1
Closing Orders revoked and Demolition Orders
substituted (Section 28) Nil
Orders/Undertakings determined Nil
(b) Slum Clearance Areas
Number of areas represented (Sections 42 & I 57 (I) 26
Houses unfit for human habitation 240
Houses included by reason of bad arrangement Nil
Houses on land acquired under 43 (2) 207
Numbers of people to be displaced (a) individuals 1,258
(b) Families 426
(c) Compulsory Purchase Orders confirmed
The Waltham Forest Housing Part III (Ringwood Road, E.I 7)
Compulsory Purchase Order 1971 , was confirmed by the Secretary of
State for the Environment without amendment.
Following Official Representations 8 Clearance Areas were
declared by the Council in December, I 971, in respect of houses in
Arkley Road, Arkley Crescent and South Grove, E.I7. A Public
Inquiry was held in October, 1972, and the decision of the Secretary
of State for the Environment is awaited.
Following Official Representations the Council took the following
action during the year:-
(a) 10 Clearance Areas were declared in March, in respect of
houses in Boundary Road, Gamuel Road, Beaconsfield Road,
Colchester Road, Boston Road, Chelmsford Road and Lennox
Road, E.I7;
(b) 4 Clearance Areas were declared in June, in respect of houses
in Apsley Road, E.I7;
(c) 7 Clearance Areas were declared in July, in respect of houses
in Lennox Road, Lennox Avenue, Gordon Road, Queens Road
and Richmond Road, E.I7;
(d) 5 Clearance Areas were declared in October, in respect of
houses in Union Road and Queens Road, E.I7.
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