The Housing HandbookNational Housing Reform Council, 1903 - 371 pages |
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... outlay is made for repairs or sanitary purposes , so that the tenants dare not insist upon their cottages being put in a proper state of repair . Very little is done by most landlords except upon the order of the sanitary authority ...
... outlay is made for repairs or sanitary purposes , so that the tenants dare not insist upon their cottages being put in a proper state of repair . Very little is done by most landlords except upon the order of the sanitary authority ...
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... outlay made by his landlord on sanitary improvements . Only too frequently , then , he dreads the visits of the sanitary inspector more than the slum- owner himself does . If this is so in the case of the ordinary 8 THE HOUSING HANDBOOK .
... outlay made by his landlord on sanitary improvements . Only too frequently , then , he dreads the visits of the sanitary inspector more than the slum- owner himself does . If this is so in the case of the ordinary 8 THE HOUSING HANDBOOK .
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... outlay , chargeable on the income from the property . In London , during the years 1892 to 1898 , representations were made with regard to 2,436 houses , which were dealt with as follows : - Closed by owners without further proceedings ...
... outlay , chargeable on the income from the property . In London , during the years 1892 to 1898 , representations were made with regard to 2,436 houses , which were dealt with as follows : - Closed by owners without further proceedings ...
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... outlay on the scheme £ 267,862 . , or an average of £ 16,740 per acre . Rents produced £ 945 , and a rate of 6d . in the £ , producing £ 6,765 , was levied in 1889 to meet the annual cost . IMPROVEMENT SCHEMES UNDER FART I. Improvement ...
... outlay on the scheme £ 267,862 . , or an average of £ 16,740 per acre . Rents produced £ 945 , and a rate of 6d . in the £ , producing £ 6,765 , was levied in 1889 to meet the annual cost . IMPROVEMENT SCHEMES UNDER FART I. Improvement ...
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... outlay of £ 310 per house , with an average rent of 6/6 per week for five rooms and scullery . The period of the loan is only 30 years ; if it were 60 years there would be a saving of 1 per cent . It is proposed to build 30 three ...
... outlay of £ 310 per house , with an average rent of 6/6 per week for five rooms and scullery . The period of the loan is only 30 years ; if it were 60 years there would be a saving of 1 per cent . It is proposed to build 30 three ...
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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.