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- catalog abstract ""With significant amounts of former council run housing returning to the private sector, and policy continuing to favour this sector in housing provision, the need for expertise in private sector environmental health enforcement is greater than ever." "Environmental Health and Housing will provide both students and professionals with comprehensive coverage of issues related to both social and private housing. The book includes basic technical information for completing house surveys, detailed yet clear backgrounds to and explanations of applying relevant legislation, and discussion of current policy and strategy. All this is backed up with case studies and examples of how theory and law are put into practice in real situations." "Unique in its coverage, clearly illustrated and covering such diverse topics as housing defects, caravan sites, asylum seekers and social exclusion, Environmental Health and Housing is an essential purchase for all students and professionals in the housing sector."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12264140.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""With significant amounts of former council run housing returning to the private sector, and policy continuing to favour this sector in housing provision, the need for expertise in private sector environmental health enforcement is greater than ever." "Environmental Health and Housing will provide both students and professionals with comprehensive coverage of issues related to both social and private housing. The book includes basic technical information for completing house surveys, detailed yet clear backgrounds to and explanations of applying relevant legislation, and discussion of current policy and strategy. All this is backed up with case studies and examples of how theory and law are put into practice in real situations." "Unique in its coverage, clearly illustrated and covering such diverse topics as housing defects, caravan sites, asylum seekers and social exclusion, Environmental Health and Housing is an essential purchase for all students and professionals in the housing sector."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. Introduction -- 2. Background to legal conditions -- 2.1. History of private sector housing renewal -- 2.2. Housing and health -- 2.3. 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 -- 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. Introduction to landlord and tenant law -- 3.7. Basic private sector housing finance -- 3.8. House condition surveys -- 3.9. Housing practice and procedures -- 4. Environmental health and housing law and practice -- 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 -- ".
- catalog description "4.7. Disabled facilities grants -- 4.8. Houses in multiple occupation -- general introduction -- 4.9. Houses in multiple occupation -- amenities and occupation control -- 4.10. Houses in multiple occupation -- standards of management, control and registration -- 4.11. Houses in multiple occupation -- means of escape in case of fire and other fire precautions -- 4.12. Insanitary premises and related issues -- 4.13. Miscellaneous living accommodation -- 4.14. Caravan site licensing and control -- 4.15. Home energy conservation acts -- 4.16. Reconnection of services -- 4.17. Disposal of dead bodies -- 5. Private sector housing strategies -- 5.1. Changing nature of housing strategies -- 5.2. Key features in developing a strategy -- 5.3. Developing a strategy for houses in multiple occupation -- 5.4. Developing a strategy for vacant dwellings and optimising the private rented sector -- 5.5. Urban regeneration -- 5.6. Issues in regeneration -- ".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-279) and index.".
- catalog description "participation, partnerships and exclusion to inclusion -- 6. Conclusions.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 286 p. :".
- catalog identifier "041525129X (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0415251303 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Clay's library of health and the environment ; v. 1".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London ; New York : Spon Press,".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "363.5/0941 21".
- catalog subject "Environmental health Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "HD7333.A3 S74 2001".
- catalog subject "Housing Environmental aspects Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "Housing and health Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "Public housing Environmental aspects Great Britain.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Introduction -- 2. Background to legal conditions -- 2.1. History of private sector housing renewal -- 2.2. Housing and health -- 2.3. 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 -- 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. Introduction to landlord and tenant law -- 3.7. Basic private sector housing finance -- 3.8. House condition surveys -- 3.9. Housing practice and procedures -- 4. Environmental health and housing law and practice -- 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 -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "4.7. Disabled facilities grants -- 4.8. Houses in multiple occupation -- general introduction -- 4.9. Houses in multiple occupation -- amenities and occupation control -- 4.10. Houses in multiple occupation -- standards of management, control and registration -- 4.11. Houses in multiple occupation -- means of escape in case of fire and other fire precautions -- 4.12. Insanitary premises and related issues -- 4.13. Miscellaneous living accommodation -- 4.14. Caravan site licensing and control -- 4.15. Home energy conservation acts -- 4.16. Reconnection of services -- 4.17. Disposal of dead bodies -- 5. Private sector housing strategies -- 5.1. Changing nature of housing strategies -- 5.2. Key features in developing a strategy -- 5.3. Developing a strategy for houses in multiple occupation -- 5.4. Developing a strategy for vacant dwellings and optimising the private rented sector -- 5.5. Urban regeneration -- 5.6. Issues in regeneration -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "participation, partnerships and exclusion to inclusion -- 6. Conclusions.".
- catalog title "Environmental health and housing / Jill Stewart.".
- catalog type "text".