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HOUSING
RENT ACT, 1957
Applications for Certificates of Disrepair
(1) Number of applications for certificates -
(2) Number of decisions not to issue certificates -
(3) Number of decisions to issue certificates
(a) in respect of some but not all defects -
(b) in respect of all defects -
(4) Number of undertakings given by landlords under
paragraph 5 of the First Schedule -
(5) Number of undertakings refused by Local Authority
under proviso to paragraph 5 of the First Schedule -
(6) Number of Certificates issued -
Applications for Cancellation of Certificates
(7) Applications by landlords to Local Authority for
cancellation of certificates 1
(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 -
HOUSE PURCHASE AND HOUSING ACT, 1959
Number of Grants for Improvements and Conversions 71
HOUSING ACT, 1957
By the end of the year under review, work on the Council's programme for
the clearance of unfit houses in the Borough had progressed to such an extent
that relatively few houses still remained to be dealt with.
In 1955, the Council submitted to the Minister of Housing and Local Government
proposals for dealing with houses within the Borough which appeared to be
unfit for human habitation. The number of houses involved was 663
This list was revised in 1958 and again in 1961, at which time 334' houses
still remained to be dealt with. When the position in relation to these 334
houses was reviewed in August of this year it was found that:-
64 houses had already been dealt with by way of Compulsory Purchase Orders,,
Clearance Orders, Undertakings, etc.
62 houses had been found, on inspection, not to be unfit, and
70 houses were awaiting the result of action already taken in respect of
them (This number includes 8 houses in Spring Grove, Chiswick, which
though unfit, were excluded by the Minister of Housing and Local Government
from a Compulsory Purchase Order )
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