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Total number of Emergency
houses up to 31st December,
1958 2 comprising 8 units.
Total number of Requisitioned
premises up to December 31st,
1958 29 (comprising 68 units).
Total number of families rehoused in 1958 10
Total number of families still on Waiting List at December
31st, 1958 513
Current Building Programme.
By the end of August, 1959, the Peldon Avenue development
consisting of 100 units will be completed as well as a further 14 in
Sutherland House, Ham.
Housing The Council have purchased 10, King's Road, for conversion into
old persons1 flatlets, and, in conjunction with the British Red Cross
Society, it is expected to house 22 persons in 1959. In addition plans
are very advanced for the erection of 42 older persons' flats on the
North Road Site.
Future Programme.
Plans have been passed and a tender accepted for the erection of
64 flats on the Lower Mortlake Road site and these should be completed
during 1960.
The redevelopment of the Ham Close site has been modified and
the erection of approximately 125 small units is contemplated.
5. Rent Act, 1957.
The Rent Act, 1957, came into operation on the 6th July, 1957,
and repealed the Housing Repairs and Rent Act, 1954.
The 1957 Act permits the rents of controlled houses to be increased
within specified limits, and lays down a proceedure to enable
the tenant and landlord to reach agreement on works of repair which
should be carried out to the property.
Should agreement not be possible, the tenant may apply to the
local authority for a Certificate of Disrepair which, if granted, stops
the rent increase. The landlord has the opportunity, however, of
giving an undertaking to carry out the repairs within 6 months, and
if such an undertaking is accepted by the local authority, the rent
increase continues to be payable.