[Report 1964] / Medical Officer of Health, Consett U.D.C.

  • Consett (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1964
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Credit: [Report 1964] / Medical Officer of Health, Consett U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Since the war a total of I3,0G4 houses have been completed in the district:— (Jouncil Private Houses Houses 1946 58 10 1947 238 16 1948 268 29 ] 949 195 12 1950 134 13 1961 109 12 1952 116 12 1953 146 29 1954 170 35 1955 136 35 1956 107 47 1957 130 58 1958 104 54 19.59 76 81 1960 44 52 1961 44 137 1962 47 91 1963 11 94 1964 17 97 2,150 914 (ii) Improvement Grants One. hundred and sixteen preliminary applications were made for improvement grants during the year, as provided by the House Purchase and Housing Act, 1959, and the Housing (Financial Provisions) Act, 1958. Two hundred and seventy discretionary and 372 standard grants have been approved since the inception of the scheme, and of these, 548 have been completed and the properties brought up to the necessary standard. (iii) Houses Unfit for Human Habitation Individual Four demolition orders and one closing order were made. Clearances Areas No clearance areas have been made. During the year, one family, a total of four persons, were rehoused by the Council. Due to collieries closing and miners moving to other districts, a large number of the 413 National Coal Board houses in the village of Allendale Cottages, Derwent Cottages, Derwentside and High Westwood, have been vacated. Consultations with the National Coal Board resulted in the following decisions being made:— (a) that all houses in Derwent Cottages and Derwentside, a total of 138 houses, should, because of their veiy short ‘life’, be demolished upon becoming vacant; (b) that all the houses in Allendale Cottages and High Westwood, a total of 275 houses, shoxdd be taken over by the local authority because of their having a much longer‘life’, and re-occupied by tenants from the Council’s housing list. Agreement was also reached that when the ‘life’ of these houses had expired, they would be demolished by the Council and the sites returned to the National Coal Board.