[Report 1969] / Medical Officer of Health, Weston-super-Mare Borough.

  • Weston-super-Mare (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1969
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Credit: [Report 1969] / Medical Officer of Health, Weston-super-Mare Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    HOUSING- It is essential that the nations housing stook should be preserved, 20% of which is substandard. However, to demolish all those houses would be uneconomical and in many areas unacceptable. The whole point of improve¬ ment grants is to save these older houses. Clearance Area schemes in the Borough were completed some years ago, but periodically individual unfit houses are dealt with and recommended * for closing or demolition. Invariably occupants of these houses express a desire to be rehoused in the areas they have lived for so many years. Action taken during year;- Number of houses included in Clearance Area for which Orders are still to be made ... Number of houses in Clearance Areas which have been patched for temporary accommodation UDderSection 18 of the Housing Act, 1957 ... Number of houses closed or demolished under Section 42 of the Housing Act, 1957 (Clearance Areas) House Act, 1957 (Section 17 - Individual Unfits) Number of houses lost;- (i) fa) Houses demolished ... (b) Houses closed ... (ii) For other purposes (road improvements, etc.) ... Number of houses declared unfit under: — (i) Section 9 of the Housing Act, 1957 (ii) Section 72 of the Housing Act, 1969 ... Number of houses made fit during year ... Number of unfit houses occupied under licence ... H«uses in multiple occupation (Housing Acts 1961 to 1969) Reconditioning of condemned houses ... Exclusion from Clearance/Demclition Orders Substitution of Closing Order for Demolition Order (Housing Act, 1961) General Improvement Areas - Number of Areas so defined Nil Nil Nil Nil 2 Nil 1 Nil 20 Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil . . o* Improvement Grants - Number of applications and houses dealt with by Local Authority during year: — 1 1 [ Up to August 1969 After Aue ........ ust 1969 1 1 Received Approved Received Approved 1 1 Appl id¬ eations No. of Dwell¬ ings Appli¬ cations No. of Dwell¬ ings Appli¬ cations No. of Dwell¬ ings Appli¬ cations No. of Dwell¬ ings Improvement Grants 23 29 13 18 19 26 14 25 S tandard Grants 17 17 17 17 8 8 8 8 Special Grants - - - - - - - - Rent Act, 1957 - Certificates of Disrepair No Certificates of Disrepair were issued during 1969.