The Housing Problem: Its History, Growth, Legislation and ProcedureSir I. Pitman & sons, Limited, 1920 - 544 pages |
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... apply it to the erection of buildings suitable for lodging - houses for the labouring classes , and may from time to time alter , enlarge , repair , and improve such lodging - houses , and supply them with all requisite furniture ...
... apply it to the erection of buildings suitable for lodging - houses for the labouring classes , and may from time to time alter , enlarge , repair , and improve such lodging - houses , and supply them with all requisite furniture ...
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... applying the Act where it has been adopted . The first real attempt to grapple with the situation was made under the ... application of four householders , close or repair at the owner's expense any house adjudged insanitary where the ...
... applying the Act where it has been adopted . The first real attempt to grapple with the situation was made under the ... application of four householders , close or repair at the owner's expense any house adjudged insanitary where the ...
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... applying traditions of social reform which he had cherished in his youth and done something to put into effect during his previous brief tenure of office . Disraeli's Government proposed , therefore , to supplement the Torrens Act of ...
... applying traditions of social reform which he had cherished in his youth and done something to put into effect during his previous brief tenure of office . Disraeli's Government proposed , therefore , to supplement the Torrens Act of ...
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... apply it in 1875 , and in 1878 it was extended to Ireland . By 1879 , indeed , a four years ' working of the Act had discovered certain weaknesses . Here , as in the Act of 1890 , the real trouble was the compensation clauses . It was ...
... apply it in 1875 , and in 1878 it was extended to Ireland . By 1879 , indeed , a four years ' working of the Act had discovered certain weaknesses . Here , as in the Act of 1890 , the real trouble was the compensation clauses . It was ...
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... apply to buildings belonging to any railway company and used for the purposes of such railway under any Act of Parliament . Various provisions of the Public Health Acts from 1875 onwards have an important bearing upon housing . For ...
... apply to buildings belonging to any railway company and used for the purposes of such railway under any Act of Parliament . Various provisions of the Public Health Acts from 1875 onwards have an important bearing upon housing . For ...
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accommodation acquired acquisition acre Amendment amount annual apply approved assisted scheme authority back-to-back houses borough Bournville building built by-laws capital cent City Classes Act clause cloth gilt Committee common lodging-house compensation cost cottages demy 8vo District Council dwelling-house dwellings economic rent erection estimated expenditure expenses financial assistance Garden Government Board Housing Acts Housing and Town housing schemes included increase industrial insanitary interest labour lease Liverpool local authority Local Government Board London County Council Majesty's Treasury medical officer ment Minister of Health Ministry necessary number of houses occupied officer of health official arbitrator overcrowding owner Parliament 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 respect rooms Rural District sanitary secure slum Street tenants tenements thereof tion town planning scheme Urban District Vict wages
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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...
Page 419 - Act into effect, and any regulations so made shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament as soon as may be...
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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...