The Housing HandbookNational Housing Reform Council, 1903 - 371 pages |
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Page 11
... floor must be elevated 15 inches above the highest known level of ground water ; and the general laying - out of streets is under special municipal control . The taxation of site values instead of houses is a most valuable proposal ...
... floor must be elevated 15 inches above the highest known level of ground water ; and the general laying - out of streets is under special municipal control . The taxation of site values instead of houses is a most valuable proposal ...
Page 20
... floors and the height of rooms ; ( c ) The prevention of buildings being altered so as to contravene the byelaws that applied to their original construction . A copy of such byelaws must be delivered to any ratepayer applying for the ...
... floors and the height of rooms ; ( c ) The prevention of buildings being altered so as to contravene the byelaws that applied to their original construction . A copy of such byelaws must be delivered to any ratepayer applying for the ...
Page 22
... floors or staircases defective . Water Supply . In the metropolis the absence of a " proper and sufficient " supply of water is a nuisance [ P.H. ( London ) Act , sec . 48 ] , and a dwelling house without such supply may be closed as ...
... floors or staircases defective . Water Supply . In the metropolis the absence of a " proper and sufficient " supply of water is a nuisance [ P.H. ( London ) Act , sec . 48 ] , and a dwelling house without such supply may be closed as ...
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... floors , in good repair - walls not papered ; ( d ) Adequate light and ventilation ; ( e ) Air space 300 to 350 feet ... floors 99 not washing floors 99 " " overcrowding receiving lodgers in unlicensed rooms - " " not applying to ...
... floors , in good repair - walls not papered ; ( d ) Adequate light and ventilation ; ( e ) Air space 300 to 350 feet ... floors 99 not washing floors 99 " " overcrowding receiving lodgers in unlicensed rooms - " " not applying to ...
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... floors and of rooms ; ( c ) Total number of rooms let in lodgings or occupied by members of more than one family ... floor , it may be used as a bedroom under certain conditions . The legislative restrictions on their use apply with ...
... floors and of rooms ; ( c ) Total number of rooms let in lodgings or occupied by members of more than one family ... floor , it may be used as a bedroom under certain conditions . The legislative restrictions on their use apply with ...
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Page 14 - ... corporations, tenants in tail or for life, married women seised in their own right or entitled to dower, guardians, committees of lunatics and idiots, trustees, or feoffees in trust for charitable or other...
Page 75 - means any drain of and used for the drainage of one building only, or premises within the same curtilage, and made merely for the purpose of communicating therefrom with a cesspool or other like receptacle for drainage, or with a sewer into which the drainage of two or more buildings or premises occupied by different persons is conveyed : "Sewer" includes sewers and drains of every description, except drains to which the word
Page 75 - ... premises within the same curtilage, and made merely for the purpose of communicating therefrom with a cesspool or other like receptacle for drainage, or with a sewer into which the drainage of two or more buildings or premises occupied by different persons is conveyed : " Sewer " includes sewers and drains of every description, except drains to which the word '• drain...
Page 18 - ... it prevents proper measures from being carried into effect for remedying any nuisance injurious to health or other sanitary evils in respect of such other buildings...
Page 33 - ... 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 11 - Act, 1845, with respect to the settlement of disputes by arbitration, shall be incorporated with this Act ; and in the construction of such provisions this Act shall be deemed to be the special Act, and "the company...
Page 52 - For the purposes of this act, 1. any premises in such a state as to be a nuisance or injurious to health; 2.
Page 226 - Act) be settled by an engineer or other fit person nominated as referee by the Board of Trade on the application of either party, and the expenses of the reference shall be borne and paid as the referee directs.
Page 79 - Any house or part of a house so overcrowded as to be dangerous or injurious to the health of the inmates, whether or not members of the same family: 6.
Page 85 - ... me] that the nuisance so complained of doth exist on the said premises, and that the same is caused by the act or default of the owner [or occupier] of the said premises [or by the said...