Manual on unfit houses and unhealthy areas / Ministry of Health.

Date:
1919
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Credit: Manual on unfit houses and unhealthy areas / Ministry of Health. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The following example will give an indication of the operation of these rules. If the value of the whole of the land included in the scheme (whether land added to make the scheme efficient or land included in the unhealthy area) is by reason of the intended use of any part of it for housing or as an open space reduced from £5,000 to £3,000, then each owner of land in the unhealthy area will receive only three-fifths of the compensation to which he would have been entitled if the value of the area as a whole were not reduced on account of the restriction on its use. As already explained, full compensation is to be paid for any land, and buildings on it, which is included in an improvement scheme only in order to make the scheme efficient, and not as part of the unhealthy area. Default Powers. Power of Minister of Health to require reports. : 17, Ifit appears tothe Minister of Health that owing to the density of population, or any other reason, it is expedient to inquire into the circumstances of any area, in order to determine whether any powers of the Housing Acts should be put into force in that area, he may require the Local Authority to make a report to him containing such particulars as he directs (sec. 37 /09). Where a representation is made to the Minister as respects any county district that the Local Authority have failed to exercise their powers under Part I or Part IT of the Act of 1890, he may direct the County Council to instruct the County Medical Officer of Health to inspect the district and to report to the Minister as to the exercise of their powers by the Local Authority (sec. 6 /19). Power to require Local Authority to make a scheme : Action in case of default. 18. Particulars have already been given (page 42) of the power of the Minister of Health, where an official representation has been made by a Medical Officer of Health and the Local Authority do not proceed to make a scheme, to direct an inquiry and, if he thinks this necessary, to order a scheme to be made. Where the Minister is satisfied that any area within the district of a Local Authority is an area in respect of which the Local Authority ought to exercise their powers under Part I. or Part II. of the Act of 1890, the Minister may require the Local Authority to make an improvement scheme and to carry it into execution. In case of default, he may either authorise the County Council to make and carry out a scheme, or may himself do so (sec. 5/19). CHAPTER XVI. POWERS AND DUTIES OF COUNTY COUNCILS AND COUNTY MEDICAL OFFICERS OF HEALTH. Reports to County Council and transfer of powers. 1. It is the duty of a Rural District Council, and also of a Metropolitan Borough Council, to forward to the County Council a copy of any representation or complaint of the kind stated below, that a particular dwelling house is in a state so dangerous or injurious to health as to be unfit for human habitation, or that a particular building is an obstructive building. This applies to representations or complaints made to the Local Authority (or to their Medical Officer of Health) by an officer of the Local Authority, or by any inhabitant householders, or in the case of a Rural Parish by the Parish Council. | When a Closing Order is made it is the duty of the Local Authority mentioned above to send a copy of it to the County Council, and from time to time to report to the County Council such particulars as they require as to any proceedings taken.