The Housing HandbookNational Housing Reform Council, 1903 - 371 pages |
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Page 11
... 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 case ; a free space of from 8 to 20 feet must be left between all buildings ...
... 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 case ; a free space of from 8 to 20 feet must be left between all buildings ...
Page 41
... to find new dwellings for 1,750 . Liverpool . -Under Cross's Act , the area now known as Victoria Square was acquired , and 635 slum houses demolished , at a cost of £ 72,000 , but the cost of the scheme decided CLEARANCE OF SLUMS . 4I.
... to find new dwellings for 1,750 . Liverpool . -Under Cross's Act , the area now known as Victoria Square was acquired , and 635 slum houses demolished , at a cost of £ 72,000 , but the cost of the scheme decided CLEARANCE OF SLUMS . 4I.
Page 44
... square yard per annum . The buildings have been erected under the Housing Act of 1890 . Greenock - Expensive Scheme under Act of 1875. - The Police Board of Greenock made an improvement scheme under the Artizans Dwellings Improvement ...
... square yard per annum . The buildings have been erected under the Housing Act of 1890 . Greenock - Expensive Scheme under Act of 1875. - The Police Board of Greenock made an improvement scheme under the Artizans Dwellings Improvement ...
Page 47
... square yards at a cost of £ 1,200 , in the case of certain congested buildings , when some of them were pulled down and the sites utilised for back yards and a back street . Manchester . - Prior to the passing of the Act of 1890 , the ...
... square yards at a cost of £ 1,200 , in the case of certain congested buildings , when some of them were pulled down and the sites utilised for back yards and a back street . Manchester . - Prior to the passing of the Act of 1890 , the ...
Page 48
... square yards was cleared at a cost of £ 4,000 , and the site , after rearrangement , was sold for £ 640 , with the stipulation that 12 houses , in accordance with the Borough Surveyor's plans , should be erected . Salford . In addition ...
... square yards was cleared at a cost of £ 4,000 , and the site , after rearrangement , was sold for £ 640 , with the stipulation that 12 houses , in accordance with the Borough Surveyor's plans , should be erected . Salford . In addition ...
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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.