(b) of the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890, as amended by subsequent Acts, apply, they passed a resolution to that effect and directed a scheme to be prepared for the improvement of the area referred to in the resolution.

3. A copy of the scheme made by the Council, with maps, particulars and estimates (in duplicate) is annexed. 4. The names of the owners or reputed owners, lessees or reputed lessees, who have dissented in respect of the taking of their lands for the purposes of the scheme, are set out in the schedule hereto.

The Council pray that an order may be made sanctioning the scheme.

REGULATIONS

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OF LOCAL AUTHORITY IN UnderREGARD TO UNDERGROUND ROOMS USED Rooms, AS SLEEPING PLACES

(Draft Clauses suggested by the Local Government Board in Circular dated 17th April 1914)

REGULATIONS PRESCRIBED BY THE

UNDER SECTION 17 (7) OF THE HOUSING, TOWN
PLANNING, &c., ACT, 1909

Every room habitually used as a sleeping place the surface of the floor of which is more than three feet below

Draft
Regulations.

Underground Rooms, Draft Regulations.

the surface of the part of the street adjoining or nearest to the room shall comply with the following regulations, namely:

1. The subsoil of the site of the room shall be effectually drained by means of a properly trapped and ventilated subsoil drain wherever the dampness of the site renders such a precaution necessary.

2. Every drain passing under the room, other than a drain for the drainage of the subsoil of the site of the room, shall be gas-tight and water-tight.

3. The room shall be effectually protected against the rising of any effluvium or exhalation by being properly asphalted, or by being covered with a layer of good cement concrete at least six inches thick, or four inches thick if properly grouted, laid upon the ground of the site of the entire room, or in some equally effectual

manner.

4. The space if any beneath the floor of the room shall be provided with adequate means of ventilation.

5. (i) Every wall of the room shall be provided with an efficient horizontal damp-proof course, which shall be composed of materials impervious to moisture, and shall if the floor of the room be formed of woodwork be beneath the level of the lowest timbers or wordwork of such floor, and shall in every other case be not less than one inch below the level of the upper surface of such floor.

(ii) No part of any wall of the room shall, where it is practicable to avoid it, be in contact with the ground or earth.

Provided that where any wall of the room is in contrast with the ground or earth, such wall or such part thereof as is so in contact shall, unless constructed as a hollow wall, have an efficient vertical damp-proof course extending from the lowest horizontal damp-proof course therein to a height of at least six inches above the surface of the contiguous ground or earth.

6. Unless the room is provided with a fireplace and a flue properly constructed and properly connected with such fireplace, it shall be provided with special and adequate means of ventilation by one or more suitably placed apertures or air shafts.

7. An area or open space properly paved with impervious material and effectually drained by means of a

properly trapped gulley, shall adjoin the room and shall Underextend either

ground Rooms,

(a) throughout the entire length of one side thereof; Draft

or

(b) at least throughout the entire width of any window or windows required by these regulations and (except where the area of such window or windows shall be not less than one-seventh of the floor area of the room) for three feet on each side of such window or windows.

Any such area shall be not less than two feet wide in every part thereof, and shall be open upwards from a level three inches below the level of the damp-proof course in the adjoining wall of the room.

Provided (a) that where a bay window in the room having side lights overlooks such an area the width thereof in front of such window may be one foot at the least; and

(b) that any steps necessary for access to any part of the building comprising the room may be placed in or over such an area or open space if they are so placed as not to be over or across any window of the room required by the regulation in that behalf.

8. (i) The room shall be effectually lighted by means of one or more windows opening directly into the external air.

(ii) Every such window shall be so constructed that one-half at the least may be opened, and that the opening may extend to the top of the window.

(iii) The total area of such window or windows clear of the sash frames shall be equal at the least to one-eighth of the floor area of the room, and a portion of such total area equal in extent to at least one-tenth of such floor area shall be so situated that a line making an angle of thirty degrees with a horizontal plane can be drawn upwards from any point thereon in a vertical plane at right angles to the plane of the window, so as not to intersect within a distance of ten feet measured horizontally from the window any wall of any area adjoining the room, or any other wall or any kerb or other obstruction except an open fence.

For the purposes of this paragraph a bay window having side lights shall be assumed to be equivalent to a flat window of the same area and of the same height in

Regulations.

Underground Rooms, Draft

relation to the room, and situated at a distance from the outside area wall equal to the mean width of the area. (iv) In estimating the area of a window or windows Regulations for the purpose of this regulation no account shall be taken of any part of any such window which is above the mean level of the ceiling of the room.

(v) Any such window or windows shall overlook the area or open space provided in pursuance of the regulation in that behalf.

APPENDIX IV

OTHER PARTS I AND II DOCUMENTS, MAINLY
RELATING TO A HOUSE OR HOUSES OUT OF
REPAIR OR OTHERWISE UNFIT

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS, 1910, No. 2

HOUSING OF THE WORKING CLASSES,

ENGLAND

FORMS

Forms.

(Keeping houses in

Order of the Local Government, dated 11th January 1910, under section 41 of the Housing, Town Planning, &c., Act, 1909 (9 Edw. 7. c. 44), prescribing Forms of repair.)

certain Notices and other Documents

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To the several local authorities in England and Wales for the purposes of Part I of the Housing, Town Planning, &c., Act, 1909;—

And to all others whom it may concern.

Whereas by section 41 of the Housing, Town Planning, &c., Act, 1909, it is enacted as follows:

The Local Government Board may by order prescribe the form of any notice, advertisement, or other document, to be used in connection with the powers and duties of a local authority or of the Board under the Housing Acts, and the forms so prescribed, or forms as near thereto as circumstances admit, shall be used in all cases to which those forms are applicable :

And whereas, by virtue of section 51 of the Housing, Town Planning, &c., Act, 1909, in Part I of that Act the expression "Housing Acts " means the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890, and any Act amending that Act, including the Housing, Town Planning, &c., Act, 1909: