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reason why coal should not be used in houses not in smoke
control areas and that by encouraging the use of coal more
smokeless fuel would be made available for use in smokeless
areas.
The Minister of Housing and Local Government was
urged to extend the grant provisions of the Clean Air Act to
provide for the payment of grants towards the cost of adapting
grates in dwellings situated in the areas of heavy smoke
pollution, even if such houses were not in smoke control
areas.
The Minister replied that the purpose of the grant was
to assist people compelled to change their fireplaces. If
grants were payable to people outside smoke control areas
the Minister would have to make it conditional on the use of
smokeless fuel and he thought this condition would be difficult
to enforce.
Thames View Estate
At the end of the year there were 1,883 dwellings on the
Thames View Estate, the tenants of which use smokeless
fuel on approved grates fitted with means of gas ignition.
The estate is a Smoke Control Area by virtue of tenancy
agreements and not under the provisions of the Clean Air Act.
There have been no difficulties with regard to thesuppl)
of smokeless fuels and no complaints of fume emission from
fires. The success of the smoke control measures in this
area gives rise to hopes that the whole programme will be
carried through without insurmountable difficulties.
Industrial Smoke
Side by side with the work to reduce domestic smoke
pollution the activities to control emissions of smoke from
industrial sources has continued. The success of this work
depends a great deal on the day to day surveillance of chimneys
and other sources.
So far as most of the industrial chimneys are concemed
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