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Site licence conditions in all cases require a water carriage
system of drainage, main water supply and fire precautions. In the
case of Dean Lane Park, communal ablution and laundry facilities
with a constant supply of hot and cold water are additional
requirements.
Clean Air
There has been no change in the policy of the Council regarding
the formation of Smoke Control Areas. The district is not
within the "Black Areas" around London as designated by the
Ministry of Housing and Local Government.
The Council operate a Building Byelaw to provide for the
installation in new buildings of appliances for heating or cooking
which are suitably designed for burning smokeless fuels and in
this respect invaluable work has been done in recent years by
various interested bodies and appliance manufacturers to further
the cause of a cleaner atmosphere by the use of approved
appliances and smokeless fuel.
With the current increased prosperity and consequent higher
standards of living there is ample evidence that clean, labour saving
means of space and hot water heating are very much in the minds
of the householder and these trends, coupled with the National
effort to form Smoke Control Areas in the worst affected districts
are having a beneficial and permanent effect in the war against
atmospheric pollution.
As a further contribution to this campaign the Council have
agreed on invitation, to participate in a National Survey of Air
Pollution by Smoke and Sulphur Dioxide under the auspices of
The Warren Spring Laboratory, Department of Scientific and
Industrial Research.
Under this scheme a number of Authorities, including a few
in relatively non-polluted areas, have been invited either to start
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