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Animals (Waste Foods) Order, 1957.
Chemical Supply Co. Ltd., Abbey Road, Barking
A copy of the findings of an appeal under the Town and Country
Planning Act is appended because of the public health aspect of the
objection by the Council.
Town and Country Planning Act, 1947:
Section 16. Appeals by The Chemical Supply
Company Limited, Abbey Road, Burking
1. I am directed by the Minister of Housing and Local Government
to say that he has considered the report of his Inspector,
Mr. F. J. K. Brindley, M.A., A.M.I.C.E., who held a local Inquiry
into your client's appeals against:—
(1) the refusal of Essex County Council to grant planning
permission for the erection of industrial buildings at the
chemical works in Abbey Road, Barking; and
(2) the failure of the local planning authority to give
not; of their decision on an application to increase
by 20 feet the height of an existing chimney at the
Hardwicke Street end of the works.
Permission for the erection of the industrial buildings was
refused on the ground that the proposal involved expansion and
consolidation of an unsatisfactorily sited special industrial use
Which would adversely affect the amenities of the surrounding
area.
2. Your client's chemical works occupy sites on each side of
Abbey Road he smaller site, on the west side of the road, is
adjoined on the north and south by industrial development and
on west by the River Roding ; the eastern and larger site
bounded on he east and south by old terrace houses and on
the north by two large gasholders, a North Thames Gas Board
building and a few more houses.
3. On behalf of your clients, it was explained that they had
Manufactured chemicals at the premises under appeal for 44
years they from time to time adapted and extended the
existing buildings, some of which were over 50 years old, to
accommodate new plant, but the point had now been reached
when large scale rebuilding was necessary. The national impor-
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