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76 Environmental Health
in Improvement Areas. All these figures relate to grants under the Standard Grant Scheme because no
application for a Discretionary Grant was received.
(I) Standard Grants
Owner I Occupier Tenanted
1. Number of applications received 46 39
Number of applications approved 35 39
Number of applications refused or withdrawn 5 6
2. Number of dwellings improved 23 37
3. Amount paid in grants £8,964 12s. 5d.
4. Average grant per house £149 8s. 2d.
5. Amenities provided:—
(a) fixed bath 50
(b) shower —
(c) wash hand basin 53
(d) hot water supplies—3 points 43
1 or 2 points 11
(e) Food stores 30
(f) Water closets within dwelling 55
(2) Discretionary Grants
Nil.
Improvement Areas—Housing Act, 1964
Number of: 1. Areas (a) Surveyed 2
(b) Declared 1
2. Houses to be improved (a) full standard 82
(b) reduced standard —
3. Preliminary Notices served —
4. Undertakings accepted —
5. Immediate improvement notices served —
6. Suspended —
7. Final —
8. Dwellings improved (a) full standard 17
(b) reduced standard —
9. Dwellings improved by L.A. in default
(a) full standard —
(b) reduced standard —
Improvement Grants—Publicity
By the end of 1967 arrangements had been made to hold exhibitions to publicise the advantages
of improvement grants and the work done by the Borough so far, and proposed for the future, in
connection with improvement areas.