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PROPOSED CONTENTS OF HOUSING SUBSIDIES BILL

Houses (including flats in blocks of not more than 3 storeys)

1.

The standard subsidy at present payable on all houses built by local authorities is £22. 1. 0. per house per year.

2.

It is proposed to abolish this and replace it by new rates differentiated according to the purpose for which the houses are built, as follows:-

(a) £10 per house for houses built for general needs

(i, e. for purposes other than those specified below).

(b) £20 per house for houses provided in connection

with slum clearance.

(c) £24 per house for houses provided by New Town

Development Corporations or by Councils of "expanded" towns for the accommodation of "overspill" population from the big towns. (In this connection, power will be taken to enable the Minister, for a period not exceed- ing ten years, to recover from the Councils of "exporting areas" 50 per cent of any contribution paid by the Minister under existing powers, in lieu of a rate contribution).

(d) £24 per house for houses built (with the

Minister's approval) to accommodate incoming workers needed to man up important industries (e. . g. for additional miners to work in expanding pits).

(e) £19 per house for houses provided in small groups

and in isolated areas for the agricultural population.

Flats in blocks of 4 storeys and upwards

3. At present a basic subsidy of £56, 8, 0, per flat per year and is payable on all flats with lifts, regardless of height.

4.

It is proposed to replace this by new rates differentiated on the same basis as for houses, and varying according to the number of storeys, as follows:-

(a) Flats for general needs

(b) Flats for slum clearance, Page 21 of 32dpill, and approved

industrial expansion.

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4 storeys

5-8 storeys Over 8 storays

£20

£35

£42

£30

£45

£52

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