The Act specifies new street dimensions and rates dependant on value and size.
Established the principal of elected town councils.
The Act officially recognises societies for the first time.
Building clubs allowed to become permanent building societies.
The Act creates public boards of health.
First Act to permit local authorities to provide housing.
Authorities given the power to demolish individual unfit houses with no compensation for owners (amended in 1879 to provide compensation).
Established principles for the purchase of land by local authorities and specified minimum back yards and rear access.
Permits local authorities to purchase and clear areas of unfit housing.
Allowed county districts to get loans from the treasury and granted authorities power to shut down unhealthy houses.
Consolidates and amends earlier regulation. It dealt with areas of unfit and unsanitary housing, individual unfit houses and gave local authority powers to build housing for general needs.
Housing and Town Planning Act accepts principles relating to the picturesque; ends obligation on authorities to sell houses in redevelopment areas within ten years; provides powers for authorities to prepare town planning schemes.
Emergency legislation which fixed rents at their August 1914 levels as a result of rent strikes by the working class.
Introduction of exchequer subsidies for Local Authority Houses. Local liability fixed at 1d rate. Exchequer met any remaining deficit (this was withdrawn in 1921).
Funds housing for the working classes.
Extended superior family housing to a select portion of the working class.
Intended mainly to stimulate private contractors. The Act was withdrawn in 1924.
Introduction of a new higher subsidy with mandatory rate, (withdrawn in 1933).
Under which the National Grid is set up.
New subsidies to help with overcrowding.
The report provided guidance to local authorities on minimum standards (similar to the Tudor Walters Report of 1918).
One in five dwellings under the New Towns Act is owner occupied the rest are rented directly from the development corporation.
Plans decentralisation from congested urban areas to provide self-contained and balanced communities.
Lowers basic standards for housing.
Minimum housing standards introduced
Policy states that 50% of new housing is rented and 50% is owner occupied.
National house building councils requirements featured space standards for both public and private housing.
This was due to cuts in public expenditure.
Inserted into the Town and Country Planning Act in 1990.
Public subsidy is transferred from dwellings to individuals.
Approval required for most building work in the UK.
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