The Housing Problem: Its History, Growth, Legislation and ProcedureSir I. Pitman & sons, Limited, 1920 - 544 pages |
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... accommodation being very much curtailed . Whilst the normal annual increase in houses for the working - classes has been con- siderably below requirements , the conditions since the war have become infinitely worse , as the result of ...
... accommodation being very much curtailed . Whilst the normal annual increase in houses for the working - classes has been con- siderably below requirements , the conditions since the war have become infinitely worse , as the result of ...
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... accommodation , the abatement of overcrowding in one area merely means its increase in another . It should be pointed out that these difficulties do not occur merely where there is no alternative accommodation . They have always ...
... accommodation , the abatement of overcrowding in one area merely means its increase in another . It should be pointed out that these difficulties do not occur merely where there is no alternative accommodation . They have always ...
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... accommodation provided . The town - planning provisions are likely to be of extreme import- ance . The provisions of the Act of 1909 have been simplified and a time limit set for schemes to be made or adopted by all boroughs and urban ...
... accommodation provided . The town - planning provisions are likely to be of extreme import- ance . The provisions of the Act of 1909 have been simplified and a time limit set for schemes to be made or adopted by all boroughs and urban ...
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... accommodation was left to chance . It was the evils of the common lodging - house and not the housing problem , as we know it to - day , which first attracted the attention of Parliament . In 1851 Lord Shaftesbury , then in Opposition ...
... accommodation was left to chance . It was the evils of the common lodging - house and not the housing problem , as we know it to - day , which first attracted the attention of Parliament . In 1851 Lord Shaftesbury , then in Opposition ...
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... accommodation might be provided else- where . A similar amending Act was passed for Scotland in 1880 . Artisans ' A very useful small amending Act was passed in the Artisans ' / Dwellings Act of 1882 , which increased the facilities for ...
... accommodation might be provided else- where . A similar amending Act was passed for Scotland in 1880 . Artisans ' A very useful small amending Act was passed in the Artisans ' / Dwellings Act of 1882 , which increased the facilities for ...
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Page 509 - To the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the City of London, in Common Council assembled...
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.
Page 13 - Observance of the same by enacting therein such Provisions as they think necessary as to the giving of Notices, as to the Deposit of Plans and Sections by Persons intending to lay out Streets or to construct Buildings...
Page 236 - ... a condition that the house is at the commencement of the tenancy, and an undertaking that the house will be kept by the landlord during the tenancy, in all respects reasonably fit for human habitation...
Page 1 - Palaces, baronial castles, great halls, stately mansions, do not make a nation. The nation in every country dwells in the cottage ; and unless the light of your constitution can shine there, unless the beauty of your legislation and the excellence of your statesmanship are impressed there on the feelings and condition of the people, rely upon it you have yet to learn the duties of government.
Page 64 - If the Local Government Board make a recommendation to that effect, the period for which the loan is made by the Public Works Loan Commissioners may exceed the period allowed under the...