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HOUSING
RENT ACT, 1957
Applications for Certificates of Disrepair
(1) Number of applications for certificates 7
(2) Number of decisions not to issue certificates -
(3) Number of decisions to issue certificates 7
(a) in respect of some but not all defects 6
(b) in respect of all defects 1
(4) Number of undertakings given by landlords under
paragraph 5 of the First Schedule 5
(5) Number of undertakings refused by Local Authority
under proviso to paragraph 5 of the First Schedule -
(6) Number of Certificates issued 1
Applications for Cancellation of Certificates
(7) Applications by landlords to Local Authority for
cancellation of certificates 4
(8) Objections by tenants to cancellation of certificates 1
(9) Decisions by Local Authority to cancel in
spite of tenants, objection -
(10) Certificates cancelled by Local Authority 1
HOUSING (FINANCIAL PROVISIONS) ACT, 1958
HOUSE PURCHASE AND HOUSING ACT, 1959
Number of Grants for Improvements and Conversions 45
HOUSING ACT 1957
Considerable work was carried out during the year in connection with the
large programme of clearance of unfit houses in the Borough with the re-housing
of the occupants, with the demolition of the properties and the redevelopment
of the cleared areas.
Since the end of the Second World War, 356 unfit houses have been demolished
in the Borough, 112 having been demolished during 1959, and 1,707 permanent
new houses built either by the Borough Council or by private enterprise. The
150 prefabricated temporary houses erected as an emergency measure to relieve
immediate post-war house building difficulties, are at last disappearing from
the district and their tenants transferring to permanent houses. The number
of these temporary houses still remaining at the end of 1959 was 83.
The following particulars show the progress made during the year under
review of the work of re-housing and demolition of unfit houses in Clearance
Areas previously reported in the years 1954-1958.
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