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hibition of dark smoke from chimneys, measures for dealing with grit
and dust from furnaces, abatement of smoke nuisances and the
application of the Act to railway engines, vessels and Crown premises.
With regard to the making of smoke control areas, any local
authority may make an Order, which must be confirmed by the
Minister declaring the whole or any part of its district as a smoke
control area. Subject to any stated exceptions and limitations, the
emission of chimney smoke in such an area, on any day, is an offence
unless the emission was caused only by the burning of an authorised
fuel.
If the owner or occupier of a private dwelling which is in, or
will be in, a smoke control area, has to incur expenditure for adapting
his heating arrangements, the local authority shall repay him seventenths
of the cost, four-tenths of which is recoverable from the
Ministry of Housing and Local Government.
In 1958, the Council passed a resolution to make the whole of
the Borough a smoke control area within 10 years. At the request of
the Ministry of Housing and Local Government, local authorities had
to submit to the Minister their proposals with regard to the making
of smoke control areas for the next five years. The Council decided
that all that portion of the Borough, lying to the south of the railway
line from the Borough boundary in the west to the North Circular
Road, and thence south of the North Circular Road to the Borough
boundary in the east should be included in this programme and
further agreed to commence a survey in connection with 4 areas as
follows, the Minister having given his preliminary consent thereto:—
(1) Basing Estate, N.3.
Total number of dwellings—200; Acreage—12.6.
(2) Red Lion Hill, N.2.
Total number of dwellings—291; Acreage—10.34.
(3) Elmshurst Estate, N.2.
Total number of dwellings—171; Acreage—10.09.
(4) Hampstead Garden Suburb, N.2 and N.W.I 1.
Total number of dwellings (including commercial
and other premises)—1,546; Acreage—446.
At the end of the year, the inspections of the properties within
these areas were well in hand.
Owing to the considerable amount of work involved, the Council
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