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In the majority of cases in which notices were served the owners were not
unwilling to carry out the work but were unable to meet the expense involved
and requested the Council to carry out the necessary work on their behalf.
Generally, formal notices were served because agents could only carry out work
on receipt of such notices, or because the service of a formal notice was a
necessary preliminary to the Council carrying out the work. The table on
Page 10 of the Appendix shows the works of repair executed incompliance with
formal and informal notices served.
Section 11 (Demolition Orders). Demolition Orders were made by the Council
in respect of three houses, 48 and 60, Lamb Lane and 62, Templar Road. In
lieu of making a Demolition Order the Council accepted from the owner of 4,
Stamford Road an Undertaking to cease using the basement front room for human
habitation, and to make the remainder of the house fit.
The following five houses, the subject of Demolition Orders made in
previous years, were demolished:-
132 and 134, Shacklewell Lane,
38, Tresham Avenue,
3 and 329, Wick Road.
In the case of 329, Wick Road, the property was demolished by the Council
at a cost of £160, which was reimbursed by the War Damage Commission.
Section 12 (Closing Orders). Closing Orders were made in respect of basement
rooms at:-
98, Cazenove Road (basement back East and West
rooms and kitchen)
58, Ravensdale Road (Basement front and back rooms)
185, Well Street (basement front and back rooms)
Instead of making Closing Orders undertakings, as indicated, were accepted
in respect of:-
19A, Amhurst Park (Undertaking to make the basement
East front, middle and back rooms
fit for human habitation).
94, Reighton Road (Undertaking to use basement back
room as kitchen).
Section 15 (Appeals). There were no appeals against notices served under
Section 9. One appeal was lodged against a demand for the payment of expenses
incurred in carrying out in the owner's default work required by a notice
served under Section 9; at the end of the year the date for the hearing of
this appeal had not been fixed.
An appeal was lodged against a Demolition Order made in 1951 in respect
of 22, East Side, London Fields. In this case the Council had refused to
accept an Undertaking to use the premises concerned for storage purposes. The
appeal was heard at Shoreditch County Court on the 7th March, 1952, but was
adjourned until the 17th March to enable both parties in the matter to reconsider
the position. On this latter date the Judge made an Order embodying an
undertaking agreed between the Council and the owner, and the owner, having
substantially succeeded in his appeal, was awarded two-thirds of his costs.
PART III (Slum Clearance)
By the end of 1939 the first two five-year programmes for dealing with
slum clearance as required by the Housing Act, 1930 had been carried into effect
and the worst of the slum property in the Borough demolished. A third fiveyear
programme was drawn up in 1939, but the outbreak of war, with the resultant
suspension of all housing operations, prevented further progress in slum