ABSTRACT
This chapter describes with the standards laid down or recommended by the State for the design, equipment and size of new houses. Given this climate of opinion there was obviously little scope for officially recommended standards for new housing. Building by-laws and regulations have their origins in the sanitary legislation of the nineteenth century. Under these Acts building by-laws are made and operated by local authorities. The end of the Second World War saw the setting up of another committee to review housing standards—the Dudley Committee. Their report, Design of Dwellings, was published in 1944 and stressed the changes which had taken place since the time of the Tudor Walters Report. It is interesting to note that there was virtually no discussion in the Dudley Report on ‘the parlour problem’ which so exercised the minds of the Tudor Walters Committee.
