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Smoke Control Area No. 2 (Hampstead Garden Suburb)
The Order controlling this area was submitted to the Minister of Housing and
Local Government during the year and was confirmed on 18th January, 1962. The Order
is to come into operation on the 1st October, 1962.
The area, which is 446 acres in extent, contains 2,554 dwellings and 90 other
premises. Adaptations to fireplaces were found to be necessary at 1,273 dwellings.
Apart from the usual notices in the local press, on notice-boards posted in the
area, notices accompanying rate demands, every householder where adaptations were
necessary was written to, outlining the steps to be taken to claim grant, and
supplied with the necessary forms. Arrangements were also made for a visit over a
period of one week to various positions in the area of the mobile exhibition unit
of the Solid Smokeless Fuels Federation. This unit demonstrates various types of
appliances actually in use, and is staffed by technical specialists who are
available to give advice on any problems relating to the use of solid smokeless
fuel. Arrangements were also made for talks to be given to local organisations.
It is hoped by these means to obtain a much better response by way of adaptation
of fireplaces than in Area No. 1.
Smoke Control Area No.3 (Claremont Road Estate)
The Order controlling this area was submitted to the Minister of Housing and
Local Government during the year and confirmed by him on 9th March, 1962. The Order
is to come into operation on 1st October, 1962.
This is a smaller area covering 125 acres, made principally to cover the
Council's Housing Estate at Claremont Road. In all, 194 adaptations of fireplaces
are required.
Arrangements have also been made for the mobile exhibition unit to visit this
area so that the tenants may receive instruction and advice in the use of solid
smokeless fuels.
Surveys of Areas No.4 (West Hendon and The Hyde), No.5 (Clitterhouse Estate)
and No.6 (Granville Road and Cloister Road Estates) were in progress at the end of
the year.
INDUSTRIAL PREMISES
494 observations were made by the Public Health Inspectors of the chimneys of
industrial or commercial premises during the year.
The number of emissions of smoke noted which contravened the provisions of
the Clean Air Act, 1956 was relatively small and all were satisfactorily dealt
with without recourse to statutory action.
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