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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
(9) Decisions by Local Authority to cancel in spite
of tenants' objection
(10) Certificates cancelled by Local Authority 1
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Number of Grants for Improvements and Conversions 56
HOUSING ACT, 1957
As mentioned in my report for the year 1963, the Council s programme for
the clearance of unfit houses in the Borough which was prepared in 1955 and
revised in 1958 and in 1961, had progressed by the end of that year, to such an
extent that only 146 houses still remained to be dealt with. Of these 140
houses were included in the High Street Redevelopment Area and the Walnut Tree
Road Redevelopment Area and their inspection would probably be delayed until
redevelopment was imminent. This, together with the impending absorption of
Brentford and Chiswick into the new London Borough of Hounslow has resulted in
a slowing down in the rate of progress maintained in previous years. It is hoped
that the proposed redevelopment of Brentford, plans for which are now under
discussion and which will embrace a much greater area than was originally anti
cipated will not be too long delayed so benefitting those families which are
still awaiting rehousing and at the same time giving them a more pleasing pro
spect than the gas works and the dilapidated High Street.
The work of rehousing the occupants of unfit houses has continued and the
demolition of houses in clearance areas and unfit houses elsewhere has again
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