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Finchley 1960

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Finchley]

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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.

A survey of the following 5 areas was completed during the year and the details thereof submitted to the Minister whose approval was given:—

AreaNo. of PremisesAcreage
(1) Basing Estate, N.320012.6
(2) Red Lion Hill, N.229110.3
(3) Elmhurst Estate, N.217110.1
(4) Part of Hampstead Garden Suburb, N.2 and N.111,546446.0
(5) Part of Hampstead Garden Suburb, N.2., and East Finchley, N.2932110.4
Total3,140589.4

All of these areas will come into operation on 1st September,
1961, The Minister had confirmed Areas Nos. 1-4, but confirmation
of Area No. 5 was being awaited at the end of the year.
The Survey of Area No. 6 was commenced during the year.
This area, comprising 2,414 premises (332.1 acres), is to the north
of Area No. 4 and to the west of Area No. 5, and is bounded by the
railway line in the north and by the North Circular Road in the west.
A certain amount of publicity has been given, and during the
year, lectures were given by members of the staff to organisations in
the district, on clean air, in general, and more particularly, with regard
to smoke control areas.
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