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Other sites in the district are small, totalling 10 in number,
one less than in 1947. The largest of these is occupied by four)
families, and the total number of families is 17, as against 20, in
the previous year.
A number of applications for new licences to use moveable
dwellings continue to be received, and are dealt with in conjunction
with the Engineer and Surveyor. They are usually refused on
Town Planning grounds.
Another problem is posed, particularly in the winter months,
by the unauthorised use by itinerant caravaners of plots of land
adjoining the Trunk Road A.20. They are usually ejected by the
owners with some difficulty, before a licence under the Public
Health Act becomes necessary. The sites used by them are often
left in a dirty condition.
The position at the end of the year is given below:—
Site
Average
number
of families
Approx.
number
of persons
Whether
licensed
Smallgain's Farm 2 4 Yes
Ruxley Manor Farm 2 6 Yes
Birchwood (adjoining Bull Hotel) 4 11 3 L., 1 N.L
Lower Hockenden Farm 1 2 Yes
Old Brickfield, Baugh Estate 2 6 Yes
Twysdens Meadow 2 8 1 L., 1 N.L.
Conservative Club, Sidcup 1 2 Yes
Old London Road, Ruxley 1 3 No
Greenwood Nursery, Parsonage Lane 1 2 No
Oakleigh Park Avenue, Chislehurst 1 2 Yes
Chalk Pit. Ruxley 18 72 No
Ground Adj. Chalk Pit, Ruxley 9 40 No
Chalk Pit, Ruxley.
During the early part of the year there were 41 families
residing in the Pit, 26 of whom were licensed in 1957. Of these 23
applied for renewal of their licences and in view of pending legal
proceedings, to be taken by the owner, to secure vacant possession,
licences were issued to the applicants to expire on the 31st June.
In July seven of these families applied for the renewal of their
licences and these were issued to expire on the 31st August.
In July the Court granted injunctions to the owner against 27
of the occupants requiring removal of their dwellings within two
months.
Many families subsequently left the Pit, and of these 9 moved
on to an adjoining site, under the same ownership. The owner
erected a fence and gate to prevent further trespass into the Pit,
leaving eight families there. During the last two months of the
year however, nine families returned, forced an entrance and took
up occupation.
Further action is being taken by the owner in an attempt to
ensure that the injunctions are complied with.