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Richmond upon Thames 1960

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Richmond]

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(n) Dwellings in respect of which formal notices were
served requiring defects to be remedied 11
(o) Dwellings in which defects were remedied after
service of formal notices 16
(p) Dwellings in respect of which informal notices
were served requiring defects to be remedied 145
(q) Dwellings in which defects were remedied after
service of informal notices 157
TABLE 24. 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and repealed the Housing Repairs and Rent Act, 1954.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 in
creased within specified limits, and lays down a procedure 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.

PART 1.—Applications for Certificates of Disrepair.

1957195819591960
Number of applications5937158
Number of decisions not to issue certificatesNil41Nil
Number of decisions to issue certificates:—
(a) in respect of some but not all defects372977
(b) in respect of all defects20671
Number of undertakings given by landlords472492
Number of undertakings refused by Local AuthorityNil1NilNil
Number of certificates issued101255