HC Deb 22 April 1929 vol 227 cc636-7W
Lieut.-Colonel HENEAGE

asked the Minister of Health the total number of houses and cottages built under the various Acts and without assistance in the districts of Louth, Mablethorpe, Sutton, Market Rasen, Grimsby Rural District Council, Caistor Rural District Council, and Louth Rural District Council; and how many were for working-class occupation?

Name of District. Houses completed with State Assistance up to 31st March, 1929. Houses completed without State Assistance up to 30th September, 1928.*
Housing, Town Planning, etc. Act, 1919. Housing (Additional Powers) Act, 1919. Housing, etc., Act, 1923. Housing (Financial Provisions) Act, 1924. Total. Having a rateable value not exceeding £26. Having a rateable value between £26 and £78.
1. 2. 3. 4. 6. 6. 7. 8.
Louth M.B. 52 5 39 90 186 62 4
Mablethorpe and Sutton U.D. 18 41 59 306 5
Market Rasen U.D. 2 2 15 1
Caistor R.D. 56 27 41 34 158 29
Grimsby R.D. 12 77 279 40 408 313 5
Louth R.D. 27 119 146 149 3
* Columns 7 and 8.—The entries in these columns relate to houses completed during a period commencing in Urban Areas on 1st October, 1922, and in Rural Areas on 1st April, 1923.
Precise figures are not available of the numbers of houses built for the working-class population, but it may be taken generally that the houses built with State assistance, and those built without such assistance up to a rateable value of £26, were of a type suitable for the working classes.

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