The Housing Problem: Its History, Growth, Legislation and ProcedureSir I. Pitman & sons, Limited, 1920 - 544 pages |
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... acre of arable and three or four acres of pasture . The Recommendations of the Commission are dealt with in an Appendix to this work . CHAPTER IV THE HOUSING OF THE WORKING CLASSES ACTS , 20 THE HOUSING PROBLEN.
... acre of arable and three or four acres of pasture . The Recommendations of the Commission are dealt with in an Appendix to this work . CHAPTER IV THE HOUSING OF THE WORKING CLASSES ACTS , 20 THE HOUSING PROBLEN.
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... acre in extent ; and the houses may be sup- plied , if the authority think fit , with the necessary fittings and even fully furnished ( sec . 59 ) . The local authority may , instead of erecting new houses , purchase or reconstruct such ...
... acre in extent ; and the houses may be sup- plied , if the authority think fit , with the necessary fittings and even fully furnished ( sec . 59 ) . The local authority may , instead of erecting new houses , purchase or reconstruct such ...
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... only involve fifty - six acres of land in all , the cost to 1 London County Council , Housing of the Working Classes in London , pp . 23 and 146 . the community of bad planning may be regarded as upwards IMPROVEMENT SCHEMES 39.
... only involve fifty - six acres of land in all , the cost to 1 London County Council , Housing of the Working Classes in London , pp . 23 and 146 . the community of bad planning may be regarded as upwards IMPROVEMENT SCHEMES 39.
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... acre . It is true that the primary reason for the clear- ance was the need for sweeping away rookeries and worn out ... acres of slums were cleared at a cost of £ 282,655 between the years 1893 and 1897 ; affecting 5,719 inhabitants ...
... acre . It is true that the primary reason for the clear- ance was the need for sweeping away rookeries and worn out ... acres of slums were cleared at a cost of £ 282,655 between the years 1893 and 1897 ; affecting 5,719 inhabitants ...
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... acre had been paid on an average for the land alone . The clearing of the Bethnal Green area cost considerably more than a quarter of a million . This latter sum will , of course , be gradually repaid by the rents , but the former was ...
... acre had been paid on an average for the land alone . The clearing of the Bethnal Green area cost considerably more than a quarter of a million . This latter sum will , of course , be gradually repaid by the rents , but the former was ...
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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...