The Housing HandbookNational Housing Reform Council, 1903 - 371 pages |
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... built by co - operative societies - Housing scheme of the Woolwich Co - operative Society - Small holdings and the rural exodus - The Garden City scheme . CHAPTER XV . - SUBURBAN HOUSING AND MODEL VILLAGES . Estates of the Artizans ...
... built by co - operative societies - Housing scheme of the Woolwich Co - operative Society - Small holdings and the rural exodus - The Garden City scheme . CHAPTER XV . - SUBURBAN HOUSING AND MODEL VILLAGES . Estates of the Artizans ...
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... built in sufficient quantities to make up the deficiency , there is a distinct lessening of the rate of increase , and ( so far as healthy dwellings are concerned ) no prospect of relieving the intensity of the " famine " to any ...
... built in sufficient quantities to make up the deficiency , there is a distinct lessening of the rate of increase , and ( so far as healthy dwellings are concerned ) no prospect of relieving the intensity of the " famine " to any ...
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... built during the last three years have not more than three rooms . In Edinburgh , " the modern Athens , ” more than half the “ homes ” consist of one and two rooms , while in some districts , such as the Canongate and S. Giles , this ...
... built during the last three years have not more than three rooms . In Edinburgh , " the modern Athens , ” more than half the “ homes ” consist of one and two rooms , while in some districts , such as the Canongate and S. Giles , this ...
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... built " brick boxes with slate lids " dumped down on dust heaps , and put up mainly with the object of getting a quick profit in the few years which will elapse before they degenerate into slum dwellings almost as bad as the old ones in ...
... built " brick boxes with slate lids " dumped down on dust heaps , and put up mainly with the object of getting a quick profit in the few years which will elapse before they degenerate into slum dwellings almost as bad as the old ones in ...
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... built upon up to two - thirds of their extent ; courts or yards of at least 645 square feet must be provided ; dwelling houses may only be erected up to five storeys , and as high as the street is wide , and not more than 72 feet in any ...
... built upon up to two - thirds of their extent ; courts or yards of at least 645 square feet must be provided ; dwelling houses may only be erected up to five storeys , and as high as the street is wide , and not more than 72 feet in any ...
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accommodation acres amount annum apply arbitrator average back-to-back houses BEDROOM block dwellings Borough borrow brick byelaws cent charges City Classes Act Clause Commissioners Company confirming authority construction cost of building cottage flats County of London court cubic district council dwelling house erected expenses feet gardens Glasgow Government Board Hornsey housing schemes improvement scheme inches interest labourers land Liverpool local authority Local Government Board lodging houses London County Council Manchester medical officer miles notice nuisance number of rooms occupied officer of health overcrowding owner paid persons PLAN population PORT SUNLIGHT premises Public Health Act Public Health Ireland Public Health Scotland purchase purposes railway rent repairs repayment respect Richmond Road rural district rural sanitary authority sanitary authority Scotland scullery secure sewers shews sinking fund slums square yard storeys Street tenants tenements town tramway urban districts ventilation walls week workmen's dwellings
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Page 73 - 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 4 - ... order so made in the manner and upon the persons in which and upon whom notices in respect of lands proposed to be taken compulsorily are required by this part of this Act to be served, except tenants for a month or a less period than a month.
Page 21 - ... in a state so dangerous or injurious to health as to be unfit for human habitation...
Page 73 - ... 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 16 - ... 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 31 - ... 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 78 - On the receipt of any information respecting the existence of a nuisance the local authority shall, if satisfied of the existence of a nuisance, serve a notice on the person by whose act default or sufferance the nuisance arises or continues, or, if such person cannot be found, on the owner or occupier of the premises on which the nuisance arises...
Page 12 - ... all 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 purposes, executors and administrators, and all parties for the time being entitled to the receipt of the rents and profits of any such lands in possession or subject to any estate in dower, or to any lease for life or for lives, and year or for years, or any less interest...
Page 9 - 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 49 - For the purposes of this act, 1. any premises in such a state as to be a nuisance or injurious to health; 2.