The Housing Problem: Its History, Growth, Legislation and ProcedureSir I. Pitman & sons, Limited, 1920 - 544 pages |
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accommodation acquired acre agricultural Amendment amount annual apply approved assisted scheme authority back-to-back houses borough Bournville builders building built by-laws capital cent Classes Act clause cloth gilt Committee common lodging-house compensation cost cottages dwelling-house dwellings economic rent effect England and Wales erected estimated expenditure Garden Government Board Housing Acts Housing and Town housing schemes included increase industrial insanitary labour land Liverpool local authority Local Government Board lodging-houses London County Council medical officer ment Minister Minister of Health Ministry number of houses occupied officer of health official arbitrator overcrowding owner payable persons population Port Sunlight powers principal Act proposed Public Health Act public utility societies Public Works Loan purchase purpose re-housing regard regulations rent repair respect rooms Rural District sanitary secure slum Street subsidy supply tenants tenements tion town planning scheme urban Urban District Vict wages
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Page 43 - ... in a state so dangerous or injurious to health as to be unfit for human habitation...
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Page 303 - ... securing proper sanitary conditions, amenity, and convenience in connection with the laying out and use of the land, and of any neighbouring lands.
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Page 413 - Every regulation so made shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament as soon as may be after it is made...
Page 414 - ... notice, enter on and take possession of the land or such part thereof as is specified in the notice, without previous consent or compliance with sections eighty-four to ninety of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, but subject to the payment of the like compensation for the land of which possession is taken, and interest on the compensation awarded, as would have been payable if those provisions had been complied with.
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