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Houses:- 41 Dunsmure Road
5 Templar Road
Part of 76 Cazenove Road
House:- 136 Graham Road
100 Southgate Road
- Basement front and back rooms
- Basement front room
- Basement front and back rooms
The owners of four premises were prosecuted for causing or permitting them
to be used in contravention of Closing Orders made by the Council, with the
following results:-
Premises Fine
41 Dunsmure Road (House) £10 0s. 0d.
12 Laura Place (Basement Front room) £2 0s. 0d.
343 Victoria Park Road (Basement
back and back addition rooms) £5 Qs. 0d.
11 Welbury Street (Basement front
and back rooms) £20 0's. 0d.
Cos ts
£1 0s. 0d.
£1 0s. 0d.
£1 0s. 0d.
SECTION 36 (Power to require execution of works or reduction of number of
occupants of house). Four notices were served under this section. Two
notices were complied with, in one case after the institution of legal proceedings
which resulted in the defendant being fined and ordered to pay the
Council's costs. The remaining two notices had not expired at the end of the
year.
Part III
(Clearance and re-development)
SECTION 42 (Power to declare an area to be a clearance area). The Minister
confirmed the following Clearance Orders made by the Borough Council in 1957:-
Area No. of houses No. of families
Crossway 3 5
Gilpin Road 3 2
One further area was represented but had not been confirmed at the end of the
year:-
Maclaren Street 8 Houses 10 Families
During the latter part of the year a survey was commenced of that part of
De Beauvoir Town within an area bounded by Southgate Road, Downham Road,
Hertford Road, Balmes Road and that part of De Beauvoir Crescent from Culford
Road to Hertford Road. The complete survey necessitated some 800 visits and
resulted in representations being submitted to the Council early in 1959, in
respect of two areas comprising 52 and 20 houses respectively.
Part IV
(Abatement of overcrowding)
SECTION 76 (Duty of local authority to inspect and to make reports and proposals
as to overcrowding). At the end of 1958 overcrowded dwellings to the
number of 793 were recorded in the department and 49 new cases were added to
the register during the year under review. Overcrowding in 11 cases was
abated by rehousing by the London County Council, and in 26 instances by the
Borough Council; in 4 instances overcrowding was abated by families finding
other accommodation.