Manual on the preparation of state-aided housing schemes.

Date:
1919
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Manual on the preparation of state-aided housing schemes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    APPENDIX V. Summary of steps to be taken. 1. ._ In order to facilitate the preparation and submission of schemes to the Board, it 1s desirable that they should be prepared in consultation with the Housing Commissioner, and submitted to the Board in stages. It 1s not intended that Local Authorities should defer the submission of their schemes to the Board until they have been completed in every detail. The normal procedure of a Local Authority in preparing a scheme. 2. (2) The Council will determine the total number of houses which they consider ave needed and can be erected during the next two years, and communicate these facts to the Housing Commissioner, if they have not already furnished them to the Board. They should also, as far as possible, indicate the class or classes of accommodation required. (12) The Council will select a site or sites for the erection of the houses, and will negotiate provisionally for their purchase. They will confer with the Housing Commissioner with a view to obtaining his general approval of ‘the proposal. In this connection reference may be made to paragraph 9 of the Board’s Circular of 6th February, 1919, which is printed in Appendix IX. (711) Application will be made to the Board on Form D. 48 for approval of the site and for sanction to any loan necessary for its purchase, or for consent to the appropriation of the land (see 3 (a) on page 32). See also note below.* _ (tv) On receipt of the Board’s approval of the site and sanction to the loan, the Council will conclude the contract for the purchase and execute the necessary deeds, and will raise the loan. (v) They will then prepare the lay-out proposals and will submit them to the Housing Commissioner. On obtaining Is general approval, they will prepare estimates of the necessary street works and sewers. (vt) Application will then be made to the Board on Form D. 49 for approval to the general lay-out, and for sanction to a loan for street and sewerage works, etc. (see 3 (b) on page 32). When the loan 1s sanctioned, the Council will raise the authorised amount in instalments as occasion demands. (vit) When the Board have. approved the general lay-out, the Council will submit preliminary house plans and the detailed scheme of development of the whole or of a part of the estate to the Housing Commissioner for his general approval. (viii) They will then submit to the Board complete drawings of the houses for approval on Form D. 50 (see 3 (c) on page 32). (ix) When the Board have approved the house plans, the Council will obtain tenders tor the erection of the houses. (x) Application will be made to the Board (see 3 (d) on page 32) for sanction to a loan for the erection of the houses, based on figures of a provisionally accepted contract or tender. (x1) On receipt of the Board’s sanction, the Council will at once proceed with the erection of the houses. (xit) When the first section of the houses 1s nearing completion the Council will submit to the Board a statement of estimated receipts and expenditure (Form D. 52 —Appendix VII), based as nearly as possible on the ascertained cost of the scheme and on the vents which the Council PiQnese to CHES, * NotEe.—Clause 9 of the Sica Town ous &c., Bill, at present Be lore Parcneee Pr nae that, where a Compulsory Purchase Order has been confirmed, the local authority may, at any time after notice to treat has been served, and after giving not less than 14 days’ notice to the owner and occupier of the land, enter on and take possession of the land.