Housing Up-to-date: (companion Volume to the Housing Handbook)National Housing Reform Council, 1907 - 306 pages |
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Page 285 - ... in a state so dangerous or injurious to health as to be unfit for human habitation...
Page 292 - Sir, — I am directed by the Local Government Board to state that they have had under their consideration the grounds stated in your letter of May 10 last, upon which the Council of the Poor-law Medical Officers...
Page 283 - Minister, have been displaced within the previous five years in view of the acquisition of land by the undertakers. 3. Provision may be made by the housing scheme for giving undertakers who are a local authority, or who have not sufficient powers for the purpose, power for the purpose of the scheme to appropriate land or to acquire land, either by agreement or compulsorily under the authority of a Provisional Order, and for giving any local authority power to erect dwellings on land so appropriated...
Page 283 - Minister may, as a condition of his approval of a housing scheme, require that the new dwellings under the scheme, or some part of them, shall be completed and fit for occupation before possession is taken of any working-men's dwellings under the enabling Act.
Page 296 - Provided that the notices by this section required to be given in the months of November and December may be given in the months of September and October, or of October and November, but in either of such last-mentioned cases...
Page 283 - Board do not hold a local inquiry with reference to a housing scheme, they shall, before approving the scheme, send a copy of the draft scheme to every local authority, and shall consider any representation made within the time fixed by the Board by any such authority.
Page 280 - Where under this Act any sum may be recovered as a fine under this Act, that sum, if recoverable before a court of summary jurisdiction, shall, in England, be recovered as a civil debt in manner provided by the Summary Jurisdiction Acts.
Page 294 - ... official representation is made, or include any neighbouring lands, if the local authority are of opinion that such exclusion is expedient or inclusion is necessary for making their scheme efficient for sanitary purposes ; it may also provide for widening any existing approaches to the unhealthy area or otherwise for opening out the same for the purposes of ventilation or health...
Page 294 - Every statutory declaration and affidavit must be made or sworn before a justice of the peace...
Page 283 - ... powers for the purpose, power for the purpose of the scheme to appropriate land or to acquire land, either by agreement or compulsorily under the authority of a Provisional Order, and for giving any local authority power to erect dwellings on land so appropriated or acquired by them, and to sell or dispose of any such dwellings, and to raise money for the purpose of the scheme as for the purposes of Part III. of...