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Action taken during the year is reported in the following tables:
Unfit Houses (not capable of repair at reasonable expense) Housing Act, 1957
1. Undertakings received (Section 16) —
2. Closing Orders made (Section 17) —
3. Demolition Orders made (Section 17) 3
4. Closing Orders made (rooms) (Section 18) —
5. Closing Orders determined (Section 27) 1
6. Closing Orders revoked and Demolition Orders
substituted (Section 28) —
7. Houses demolished following Demolition Orders 9
8. Houses demolished following Closing Orders 2
9. Number of people displaced:
(a) individuals 41
(b) families 14
CLEARANCE AREAS AND INDIVIDUAL UNFIT DWELLINGS
Since the 1st April, 1965, the Council have made 46 demolition orders, 32 Closing Ordei
and declared 42 Clearance Areas. The only common lodging house that operated in the Boroug
has been demolished.
(1) Clearance Areas represented during the year:
1. Number of areas 3
2. Houses unfit for human habitation 12
3. Houses included by reason of bad arrangement, etc. —
4. Houses on land acquired under Section 43 (2) —
5. Number of people to be displaced:
(a) individuals 28
(b) families 10
(2) Action taken during the year relating to Clearance Areas:
1. Houses demolished by Local Authorities or owners:
(a) unfit 38
(b) others —
2. Number of people displaced:
(a) individuals 27
(b) families 12
MULTIPLE OCCUPATION
During the year 34 new cases of multiple occupation were discovered and as a result 34
Direction Orders were served.
Revisits to those houses on which Direction Orders were already in force revealed 16 contraventions,
and legal proceedings were instituted in these cases.
Satisfactory means of escape in case of fire were required in 7 cases.
CERTIFICATES OF DISREPAIR—RENT ACT, 1957
Under this Act a tenant under a controlled tenancy can apply to the Council for a Certificate
of Disrepair if the dwelling he occupies is in a state of disrepair by reason of defects. The tenant
must first serve notice on the prescribed form on the landlord, listing those defects which ought
reasonably to be remedied, having due regard to the age, character and locality of the dwelling,
and requesting the landlord to remedy them. If on the expiry of 6 weeks from the service of this
notice the defects specified in the notice remain unremedied then unless the landlord has given
an undertaking in the prescribed form to remedy those defects, the tenant may apply to the Council
for a Certificate of Disrepair which has the effect of securing rent abatement while the Certificate
is in force.
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