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Offensive Trades.
One Dresser of Furskins is established in the Borough.
Smoke Abatement under the Clean Air Act.
During the year 7 complaints of nuisance from smoke were received. 45 smoke
observations were carried out.
SMOKE CONTROL AREAS,' In view of the nature of the district a recommendation
was made to the Council that the whole Borough should be declared a 'Shioke
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Control' area, so that the widely dispersed industrial undertakings could be
controlled, with the proposal that all premises likely to be dealt with by
re-development within the next 10 - 15 years be excluded and the remainder
of the property, most of which is new post-war development, having been built
by this Council and the London County Council, should be dealt with in three
zones - 'Central' , Lansbury Estate area, the 'South' , Island area and the
'North' of the Borough which would be the area last to be developed, as the
third phase. This was accepted in principle by the Council on 28th October,
1957.
Unfortunately, owing to the extreme shortage of staff it has not been
possible to implement any of these recommendations owing to complete inability
to carry out the surveys necessary.
INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS. A very considerable degree of co-operation has been
secured on the part of the various industrial undertakings in the area and
where attention has been drawn to the unnecessary production of smoke in the