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SECTION 27
Closing Orders determined (Parts of buildings) 13
Closing Orders cancelled (Premises demolished) 1
SECTION 42
Clearance Orders made l
Number of houses included therein 61
Housing Act 1961
SECTION 12
Managements Orders made 6
SECTION 19
Directions given 270
STANDARDS OF AMENITIES AND ACCOMMODATION FOR
HOUSES IN MULTIPLE OCCUPATION ADOPTED BY THE
BOROUGH COUNCIL ON 27TH FEBRUARY 1963
(a) Natural arid Artificial Limiting
(i) There shall be provided and maintained in every occupied room a
window or windows capable of being opened and having, where practicable, a
total lighting area, exclusive of sash or casement frames, equal to at least
one-tenth of the floor area, provided always that notwithstanding that the
total lighting area may comply or exceed the foregoing standard, the total
natural illumination of the room shall in all events be reasonable for the
purposes for which the room is used.
(ii) There shall be provided and maintained suitable means for securing
adequate artificial lighting either by electricity or gas in each occupied room,
kitchen, bathroom and water closet, and also on any staircase not being a
common staircase within the meaning of the Lighting of Staircase Byelaws.
(Common Staircases are required to be lighted under these Byelaws).
(iii) There shall be provided and maintained wherever practicable, adequate
means of natural lighting of all staircases, and in all circumstances where such
adequate natural lighting cannot be provided adequate artificial lighting
shall be provided as set out in (ii) above.
(b) Ventilation There shall be provided adequate means of ventilation
including permanent ventilation in every passage, room water closet compartment
staircase. Every occupied room shall be provided with external ventilation by
window or equivalent controllable openings having a total openable area equivalent
to at least one* twentieth of the floor area
(c) Water Supply and facilities for the Deposal of Waste Ylater. There shall
be provided and maintained within each letting a proper and sufficient supply of
water for drinking purposes under direct pressure from the mains of the Metropolitan
Water Board or other suitable source. There shall be provided under
every such water tap an adequate sink for domestic purposes with proper means
of carrying off waste water and discharging into the drainage system.
(d) Personal Washing Facilities In each letting there shall be provided hot
and cold water supply at a wash hand basin or at a sink fitted with a waste
water pipe properly connected to the drainage system. There shall be provided
a fixed bath or shower constructed in accordance with the London Cbunty Council
(Drainage) Byelaws with separate piped and tapped hot and cold water supplies
in the ratio of two fixed baths or one fixed bath and one shower to every 10
persons irrespective of age. Every fixed bath or shower is to be in a separate
compartment within the building not more than one storey distant from any rooms
occupied by the person or persons for whom it is provided.