Environmental Health and Housing

Abstract

Chapter 1. Introduction. Chapter 2. Background to legal conditions. 2.1 History of private sector housing renewal. 2.2 Housing and Health. 2.3 The role of the private rented sector. 2.4 Inequality and poor housing conditions. 2.5 Homelessness. 2.6 Asylum seekers and housing. 2.7 Fuel poverty, energy efficiency and conservation. Chapter 3. Essential basic knowledge. 3.1 Building terminology. 3.2 Common housing defects. 3.3 Surveying a house. 3.4 Drafting a specification of works. 3.5 Key legal definitions for housing enforcement. 3.6 An introduction to landlord and tenant law. 3.7 Basic private sector housing finance. 3.8 House condition surveys. 3,9 Housing practice and procedures. Chapter 4. Environmental health and housing law. 4.1 Disrepair - civil and criminal remedy. 4.2 Statutory fitness for habitation. 4.3 Options for unfit housing. 4.4 Statutory nuisance in housing. 4.5 Overcrowding. 4.6 Housing grants. 4.7 Disabled facilities grants. 4.8 Houses in multiple occupation - a general introduction. 4.9 Houses in multiple occupation - amenities and occupation control. 4.10 Houses in multiple occupation - standards of management, control and occupation. 4.11 Houses in multiple occupation - means of escape in case of fire and other fire precautions. 4.12 Insanitary housing and related issues. 4.13 Miscellaneous living accommodation. 4.14 Caravan site licencing and control. 4.15 Home Energy Conservation Acts. 4.16 Reconnection of services. 4.17 Disposal of dead bodies. Chapter 5. Private sector housing strategies. 5.1 The changing nature of housing strategies. 5.2 Key features in developing a strategy. 5.3 Developing a strategy for HMO's. 5.4 Developing a strategy for vacant properties and optimising the private rented sector. 5.5 Urban regeneration - participation, partnerships and exclusion to inclusion.