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local authority and the Minister are satisfied that there is good reason to do
so the £400 maximum grant may be raised,
In seventy-eight instances the Council made advances under Section 4 of
the Act, but no grants were made under Section 20.
SMALL DWELLINGS ACQUISITION ACTS., 1899 to 1923
Applications for advances for the purpose of house purchase were granted
by the Council in 103 instances.
TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT, 1947
The Town and country Planning (Housing Accommodation) Direction,, 1952,
provides that, on receipt of an application for planning permission'for development
which involves a dwelling-house being used other than as a dwelling, a
local planning authority which is not the housing authority in relation to that
dwelling must consult the latter authority before determining the application
Applications for such planning consent are therefore referred by the London
County Council, as local planning authority, to the Borough Council for
observations. In 36 cases, objections by the Borough Council to the proposed
change of user were supported by the County Council.
Of appeals dealt with by the Minister of Housing and Local Government; two
were upheld and ten were dismissed.
HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS ACT, 1954
PART I
SECTION 11 (Houses let in lodgings; securing fitness for occupation by number
of families accommodated) replaces the power to make by-laws relating to houses
let in lodgings or occupied by more than one family by a general power to
require an adequate provision of the services and amenities set out in paragraphs
(d) to (h) of Section 9 (1), viz; natural lighting, ventilation, water
supply, drainage and sanitary conveniences and facilities for storage, preparation
and cooking of food and for the disposal of waste water. The local
authority may serve a notice on the person having control of the house, setting
out the works which they consider necessary to make it suitable for multiple
occupation, and requiring him in default of carrying out the works to take
steps to reduce the number of people accommodated or of households or of both
An appeal against a notice may be made to the county court-
Possession may be obtained, despite the provisions of the Rent and Mortgage
Interest Restrictions Acts, 1920 to 1939, in order to comply with a
requirement to reduce the occupancy, A person failing to comply with a
requirement of a notice served under this section by the local authority is
made liable to a fine on summary conviction,
SECTION 12 (Houses let in lodgings prevention of overcrowding) replaces the
power to make by-laws fixing the number of persons who may occupy a house let
in lodgings or to more than one family. It empowers a local authority where
it appears that excessive numbers are being accommodated in such a house, to
serve on the occupier, or anyone having the control or management, a notice
stating the maximum number of persons who may use any room as sleeping accommodation.
fecial maxima may be fixed where some of the occupants are under
such age as may be specified in the notice. Any person who contravenes any
notice served on him under the section or who permits the house to be occupied
by such a number of persons that it is not possible to provide for the proper
separation of the sexes is made liable to a fine on summary conviction