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NO. 6 AREA - A 10% sample survey of houses in this area was carried
out during the year.
The area is 639 acres in extent and it is situated in
north western part of the Borough, it is bounded on the
east by Hertford Road, on the south by Bury Street, the
Enfield Branch line of British Railways, the Great
Cambridge Road, Bury Street West, Church Street and Ridge
Avenue on the west, by the Borough boundaries with Southgate
and Enfield and on the north by the Borough boundary with
Enfield. Its somewhat unusual shape is due to the fact that
it is a combination of two areas in the original smoke
control area programme.
The area is essentially residential in character. It
contains 5,435 houses including 327 Council-owned houses,
12 industrial premises, mainly small workshops and garages,
164 commercial premises, mostly shops, public houses etc.
and 50 other premises including schools, churches, halls,
clubs etc. most of the houses are owner-occupied but there
are a number of tenanted houses mainly in the eastern part
of the area. Of the 327 Council owned houses, 88 have been
erected since 1956; conversions are not required at these
houses, nor at 60 other Council-owned houses.
It was planned to bring this area into operation as a
Smoke Control Area on 1st October, 1964, but as the
result of objections to the Order being received, a Public
Inquiry was held on 17th December, 1963. The Order was
confirmed on 3rd April, 1964, and will become operative on
1st June, 1965.
The table set out above shows details of confirmed Smoke
Control Orders.
During the year 544 observations of industrial chimneys in
the Borough were made by the Public Health Inspectors.