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Environmental Health
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Details of applications received during 1969 and subsequent action that has been taken is shown
below:—
Dwellings outside Improvement Areas (Sec. 19 Applications)
1. Number of representations made by tenants 28
2. Number of Preliminary Notices served (full standard) 30
3. Number of Immediate Improvement Notices (full standard) 9
4. Number of dwellings improved:
(a) full standard 5
(b) reduced standard —
The position with the 28 representations is as follows:—
Applications applied for grant by owners 3
House found to be unfit and dealt with by Closing Order 1
Representations withdrawn 5
Immediate Notices served on owners 6
Negotiations with owners in progress 13
Improvement Areas—Housing Act 1964
Number of 1. Areas (a) Surveyed —
(b) Declared —
2. Houses to be improved (a) full standard —
(b) reduced standard —
3. Preliminary Notices served 41
4. Undertakings accepted —
5. Immediate Improvement Notices served 19
6. Suspended Notices served 16
7. Final —
8. Dwellings improved (a) full standard 14
(b) reduced standard —
9. Dwellings improved by Local Authority in default:
(a) full standard —
(b) reduced standard —
Although there are approximately 2,000 houses in the Borough still lacking in one or more of
the standard amenities, this still represents a minor problem compared with conditions existing over
the country as a whole.