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Clean Air Act. 1956. Section 12:
This Section empowers a Local Authority to serve a Notice requiring
adaptations to fireplaces on the owner or occupier of houses within a
Smoke Control Area.
1 such Notice was served during the year on an owner.
General Information:
Meetings of the National Society for Clean Air and its South East
Division, the Conference of Co-operating Bodies and the London and
Home Counties Clean Air Advisory Council are attended as a routine.
Sewerage and Sewage Disposal.
Regional Scheme:
This has been noted earlier and its proposals were detailed In last
year's report.
I must say that the residents, especially in the immediate neighbourhood
of the Bretons Farm Works suffer, on occasion, a most serious
degree of inconvenience from the smell of the Works activities. This
situation no one would view with anything but concern.
It is emphatically not the fault of this Council that the Regional
Scheme has not progressed much more speedily. The Bretons Works
are controlled by a joint Board with representatives of Hornchurch and
Romford Councils and were the Works less ably managed cause for
complaint might well be greater. This Council is I know doing everything
which it can to hasten the progress of the Regional Scheme and
lessen the load upon Bretons. This scheme alone can finally obviate
the smell troubles which from time to time beset the neighbourhood.
I am indebted to the Surveyor for the following information:-
Soil Sewers:
Work has been completed on approximately 1 mile of new sewers
at:-
Upminster Road, Rainham, relief soil sewer (12" diameter)
which connects to an existing soil sewer at Dovers Corner, pending
implementation of the Regional Scheme.
Hall Lane/Warley Road, extension of soil sewer (9" diameter)
dispensing with the need for a dozen cesspools and pall closets.
Work has commenced on:-
The Roneo Corner soil sewer improvement.
Upminster Road, Hornchurch, soil (and surface water) improvement
(relaying).
Surface Water Sewers;
The following works have been completed:-
Marlborough Gardens relief (9" diameter).
Spenser Crescent relief (9" diameter).