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CLEAN AIR
Smoke Control Areas
Considerable progress was made in the Council's
programme for the establishment of smoke control areas.
During the year under review, Smoke Control Orders were
made by the Council in respect of the following:-
Smoke Control Area No. 2.
Bounded by Turney Road, Dulwich Village, Red Post Hill,
Sunray Avenue and the Borough boundary.
Area in acres 230
No. of dwellings 2,183
No. of commercial and other premises 127
Date of operation Ist September, 1962.
Smoke Control Area N0.3
Pounded by Sunray Avenue, Red Post Hill, Dulwich
Village, Court Lane, Lordship Lane, Melbourne Grove,
Grove Vale, Dog Kennel Hill, Grove Lane, Champion Park
and the Borough boundary.
Area in acres 352
No. of dwellings 3,637
No. of commercial and other premises 149
Date of operation Ist November, 1962.
Both of these Orders have since been confirmed by the
Minister without modification.
At the end of the year the detailed survey of Area
No.4 was in progress.
Investigation of Atmospheric Pollution
For some considerable time the Council had four
instruments for measuring atmospheric pollution. There
were two volumetric instruments situated at 475 Lordship
Lane and the Town Hall respectively, as well as a deposit
gauge and lead peroxide instrument on the roof of the
Queen s Road Centre, St, Mary's Road, Peckham. In March,
1961, a communication was received from the Department of
Scientific and Industrial Research expressing their gratitude
to the Council for making available the results
obtained. It pointed out, however, that whilst the deposit
gauge and lead peroxide instrument had been of great value,
the introduction of the volumetric apparatus had rendered
the latter instrument obsolescent and the deposit gauge