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Case 6. Adjourned sine die on payment of £1. 1s, 0d. costs and
promise to do work in 14 days.
Restored for hearing 19th October as work was not done.
Order made for work to be done forthwith - fined £1.
and £2. 9s. 6d costs.
Case 7. Adjourned sine die as work completed and £1. 1s. Od.
costs paid.
Case 8. Ordered to carry out work in 14 days - awarded 7/6d.
costs.
Housing Lettings.
The annual report for 1949 contained a detailed statement of
the steps taken by the department for dealing with enquiries from
housing applicants. These enquiries continue to come in, and they
are investigated before any recommendations are made. I must,
however, comment on the position of persons continuing to occupy
houses which have become the subject of demolition orders. The
Council have - in my view wisely - accepted the responsibility for
rehousing these cases. They have gone even further and given a
measure of priority, but it is to be regretted that there are still
cases where the occupants have not been rehoused even three years
after the demolition order was made and confirmed by the Council.
That people continue to occupy such premises is no reflection
on the Council, but it is an indication of the acute problem of the
insanitary and unfit houses.
The following is a summary of the Council's post-war housing
schemes as at the 31st May, 1951:-
Family Units
(1) Accommodation provided:-
Permanent Dwellings 358
Temporary Dwellings 315
Requisitioned Property 1,178
Half-way Houses 22 1,873
(2) Permanent Dwellings in progress 265
(3) Proposed Schemes for Permanent Dwellings 1,258
3,396