§ Mr. Clinton Davisasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will introduce legislation requiring local authorities to offer alternative accommodation to owner-occupiers of limited means whose residential accommodation has been compulsorily acquired.
§ Mr. Graham PageThe Land Compensation Bill imposes a statutory rehousing obligation on authorities where suitable alternative accommodation on reasonable terms is not otherwise available and provides for "interest only" mortgages for owner-occupiers with limited incomes. Further, the well-maintained payments multiplier for unfit property was doubled in the Housing (Payments for well-maintained houses) Order 1972. In DOE Circular No. 103/72 local authorities were also urged to offer council houses for sale 21W on beneficial terms and to give high priority for local authority mortgage loans to displaced persons.
§ Mr. Clinton Davisasked the Secretary of State for the Environment which local authorities in greater London do not as a matter of course offer alternative accommodation to owner-occupiers of limited means whose residential accommodation has been compulsorily acquired.
§ Mr. ChannonFor compulsory purchase of unfit houses all local authorities have a statutory duty to rehouse owner-occupiers. For other compulsory purchase, most London authorities are prepared, as a matter of course, to offer alternative accommodation for owner-occupiers of limited means, but the boroughs of Croy-don. Hammersmith, Harrow, Kensington and Chelsea, Kingston and Westminster consider individual cases on their merits.