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The extensive development of the Nork Park Estate, in the northwestern
part of the Parish of Banstead, rendered it necessary that this
portion should be sewered without delay, and the Council applied to the
Ministry for sanction to a loan. At an Inquiry which was held in June,
1924, into the application, it was agreed to extend this section to include a
somewhat congested part of the Village of Banstead. The work of laying
the sewers was begun in January, 1925, and was nearing completion at the
end of the year, some connections having already been made.
In November, 1925, an Inquiry was held into the application of the
District Council for sanction to borrow £88,845 for the whole scheme, and
at the end of the year negotiations were in progress with the Beigate Rural
District Council as to the terms on which the sewage of Walton would be
received, if that Council should decide to proceed with the scheme for that
Parish.
The sewers will discharge into those of the Cheam and Cuddington
system for treatment at the Worcester Park Outfall Works. This addition,
together with the large increase of population already served by these works,
will necessitate the reconstruction of the system of disposal.
The new sewers will permit of the reception of the drainage of the
Kensington, Chelsea and St. Marylebone Schools in the Parish of Ewell,
and of other parts of that Parish, and of the Parishes of Cheam and
Cuddington.
In 1923, Mr. Pratley submitted a scheme for the drainage of Fairmile,
Cobham, and of the Parish of Stoke d'Abernon. The scheme was placed in
the following year in the hands of Messrs. John Taylor and Son for report,
and estimates and drawings were presented to the Council in September.
Messrs. Taylor also prepared a scheme for the drainage of Great and Little
Bookham and Fetcham, and another for the Elmbrook Estate, Cheam.
The appropriate steps are being taken to proceed with these three schemes.
Sewers have been extended to take the drainage of newly developed areas in
the Parishes of Ashtead, Cheam, Cobham and Ewell, and Mr. Wooldridge
has prepared a scheme for the extension of sewers in West Ewell.
The District Council were negotiating at the end of the year for the
reception of the drainage of an estate in Woodmansterne Parish into the
sewers of the Coulsdon and Parley Urban District Council.
Closet Accommodation.—In all places in which sewers are available
the houses are provided with water-closets with flushing apparatus, and the
drains are intercepted from the sewers and are ventilated.
The parts of the District in which there is no water-carriage system
are for the most part provided with moveable pails or tub-closets. The
numbers of premises provided with water-closets, pail-closets and privies in
the Eastern District (Banstead, Cheam, Cuddington, Ewell, Headley and
Woodmansterne) and the Western District (remaining Parishes) are:—
Eastern District. Western District. Whole District.
Water-Closets 5028 2667 7695
Earth- or Pail-Closets 383 446 829
Privies 35 112 147