HC Deb 30 July 1935 vol 304 cc2620-1

Lords Amendment: In page 44, line 28, after the first "arrangement," insert "in relation to other buildings."

Mr. SPEAKER

This Amendment raises a question of privilege.

10.18 p.m.

The LORD ADVOCATE

I beg to move, "That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment."

The purpose of this Amendment is to clarify the Clause. It was the intention of the Government that a house should not be excluded from a clearance order if it was so badly arranged internally as to be unfit for human habitation. On the other hand, if the objection to it was simply a matter of its grouping with regard to other buildings, then it should be excluded, and an Amendment was accepted in another place to relate "bad arrangement" in Clause 55 to a bad arrangement of the whole house in relation to other buildings on the site.

Mr. MACLEAN

Does this mean that a house which is situated in a demolition area and is bad internally is going to receive the market value, which will be in excess of what the real value of that particular property would be if it were regarded as house no longer fit for occupation and had to be demolished?

The LORD ADVOCATE

No, a house which through bad internal arrangement is no longer fit for human habitation will not be excluded, and the owner, when he gets his compensation, will get compensation only on the site value, but where it is a house which is badly arranged only in relation to other buildings the owner will get not only the site value but the value of the house.

Lords Amendment: In page 45, line 10, at the end, insert: