ABSTRACT
Chapter 4 looks specifically at the environmental health housing law and its application. It considers the key concepts of housing fitness, nuisance and disrepair, before looking at options to deal with these. It covers issues in houses in multiple occupation, including definitions, management, amenities, general controls and means of escape in case of fire. It then turns to housing grants, considering their application and use. The chapter also explores alternative forms of living accommodation where conditions and controls are frequently tied up with land rights, before looking at where caravan site conditions are formalised and licensed. Some social aspects of housing are included, particularly basic public health issues found in filthy and verminous premises. The Home Energy Conservation Acts are considered. It provides an overview of powers to reconnect services in private rented premises where the landlord has defaulted in paying bills. It ends in looking at public assistance burials, where people have died with no one other than the local authority to arrange their funeral and to sort out their estate, sadly an increasingly common feature of society.
