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The preliminary notice to the owner/tenant would consist
of a stereotyped document containing full information as to the
type of works covered by a standard grant and other details
regarding requirements of the Smoke Control Order, authorised
fuels, approved appliances, etc., etc.
Adaptations/conversions of a more complicated nature not
covered by a standard grant would be dealt with in accordance
with the existing procedure laid down in the Clean Air Act,1956.
Adoption of the above scheme, with appropriate safeguards, would, in our opinion,
reduce the technical and administrative work involved by half, an important factor at a
time when Local Authorities are experiencing extreme difficulty in recruitment of
technical staff and are faced with reduced financial resources. It would also mean that
the Smoke Control programme would be accelerated. It is to be hoped that in due course
the Minister will persuade the Government to introduce legislation to amend the procedure
on a more realistic basis than it is at present.
Many applications are being received from owners/tenants of properties not actually
situated within a confirmed Smoke Control Area for a grant towards the cost of fireplace
adaptations which they propose to carry out ahead of the Council's phased
programme. As the law stands at present grants cannot be made in such circumstances,
and the Minister has again been requested by the Joint Conference to consider introducing
legislation to modify the Clean Air Act so that any person in any area who
incurs expense on adapting fireplaces in anticipation of the making of a Smoke Control
Order may obtain a grant.
The phased programme for establishing a series of Smoke Control areas covering the
whole of the Borough is progressing satisfactorily.
The Minister of Housing and Local Government has now confirmed Leyton's second
Smoke Control Area made under the provisions of the Clean Air Act, 1956. The Order will
come into operation on 1st October, 1962, and relates to an area of some 163 acres in
the south-western part of the Borough, bounded by Windsor Road and Ruckholt Road to
the north, High Road, E.10. and E.15. to the east, the Borough boundary and Oliver Road
to the west, and the Borough boundary to the south.
It affects some 1,069 householders, 8 industrial undertakings and 54 commercial
concerns in the following roads (in some cases part only of the road is affected),
namely: -
Adelaide Road, Alexandra Road, Balmoral Road, Brisbane Road,
Buckingham Road, Cranbourne Road, Dunedin Road (Nos.1 to 95
(odd) and 2 to 92 (even) only)), Etchingham Road, Gordon Road,
High Road (Nos.101 to 401 (odd) only)), Lyttelton Road, Maud
Road, Nut field Road, Oliver Road (part only), Osborne Road,
Ruckholt Close, Ruckholt Road (Nos.1 to 111 (odd) and 2 to 78
(even) only)), Temple Mills Lane (Nos.48 to 86 (even) only)),
Eton Manor, Westdown Road, Windsor Road (Nos.1 to 105 (odd)
only)) and York Road.(Please refer to Map on page 18).
Owners and occupiers of the premises affected should do nothing until they receive
full information by letter from the Council, and should then at once liaise with each
other, for the grant can be paid to whoever does the work. Persons affected by the
Order will have at least nine months before the operative date in which to carry out
any necessary adaptations to existing fireplaces. The Order itself specifies certain
exemptions, and other exemptions are allowed by Government Orders already in force.
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