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Atmospheric pollution
Clean Air Act
During 1959 three more areas were made the subject of Smoke
Control Orders and particulars with regard to these are as follows: —
Name No. 3 No. 4 No. 5
(Brookdale (Penerley) (Glenbow)
Acreage 80 280 150
Open space Nil 40 30
No. of industrial premises Nil 9 2
No. of commercial premises 120 213 37
No. of dwellings 1,172 3,367 2,059
No. of other premises 9 8 5
Present annual tonnage of bituminous coal
etc., to be replaced 1,500 4,500 1,612
Likely assitional fuel required annually
(o) Electricity (KWH) 160,000 450,000 180,000
(b) Gas (therms) 32,000 85,000 34,000
(c) Oil, etc, Nil Ni. Nil
(d) Solid smokeless fuel (tons) 1,000 3,000 1,100
Existing appliances requiring replacement
or adaptation
(o) Open fires 1,820 5,006 2,195
(b) Open fires with boilers 37 209 23
(c) Combination grates without boilers 50 64 3
(d) Combination grates with boilers 18 6 6
(e) Washboilers 5 4 36
(f) Domestic boilers 12 294 22
(g) Other appliances (freestanding
stoves etc.) 16 92 6
Total estimated cost of works £16,763 £54,680 £13,746
Date : Order made 30.9.59 28.10.59 30.9.59
Order Confirmed 11.12.59 26.1.60 11.12.59
Order operative 1.9.60 1.10.60 1.9.60
The progressive total (when these Orders are operative) will be
1,450 acres covering 10,805 dwellings. No. 1 (Ladywell) Order became
operative on 1.9.59. and No. 2 (Southend) on 1.11.59. In spite of extensive
local advertisement many required adaptations had not been done
by the operative dates. Since these were the first two Orders in the
borough and since there had been, at the beginning, a slight bottleneck
in getting tradesmen for the work, the Council decided to consider late
applications up to six months from the operative dates.
The Council's intention is to cover the whole borough by smoke
control orders as quickly as practicable. The time this takes will depend
mainly on staff and on finance. Good progress has been made so
far and the committee have adopted a tentative programme under
which a middle strip of the borough, consisting of 9 areas, will be
completed by 1961, a western strip of 6 areas by 1964, a north and eastern
strip of 5 areas by 1967 and a southern group of 3 areas around
the gasworks by about 1968. It is possible that some acceleration of
this programme could occur in favourable circumstances.
Measurement of Atmospheric Pollution
Table 22 shows the results obtained from the three permanent deposit
gauges and three smoke recording stations. A fourth deposit
gauge is on a small allotment site in Brockman Rise. The graphs show
the lowest and highest pollutions from water-insoluble matter in the
years 1953-58 and also the pollution in 1959.