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46.
SMOKE CONTROL AREAS.
Smoke Control Orders in operation:
The occupiers affected by the Hyde Road Order have entered their
second winter of smokeless operation.
Observations have been kept by the Public Health Inspectors to ensure
that the terms of the Order continue to be complied with and that smoke
produced in the area is kept to a minimum.
It is noticed that many of the occupiers in this area have ceased to
use solid fuel on their open fires and use either gas or electricity for
their space heating, and most of these occupiers claim that they find these
methods more convenient and more economical than other methods of heating.
The majority of people who are using the new solid smokeless fuels
appear to have accepted them and find that they are satisfactory and efficient
in use.
The Shoreditch (Pitfield) Smoke Control Order 1960.
In September, the Public Health Committee considered detailed proposals
for this Smoke Control Order to bring into effect the Council's second
Smoke Control Area.
Council was recommended to make the Order and after due advertisement to
submit it to the Minister of Housing and Local Government for approval.
No objections were received to the Order within the statutory six weeks
period of advertisement and it only remains for the Minister to confirm the
Order and determine the date of its operation, (and for the Department's
staff to complete when possible).
There are 2,732 premises in the area, which comprise 2,364 dwellings,
225 commercial premises, 127 industrial premises and 16 others.
Those premises which fall within early Clearance Schemes, for Open Spaces
and for Road Improvement, are to be exempt from the provisions of the Order
until they are demolished.
The estimated total cost of replacement and adaption of fireplaces in
dwellings is £8,704 of which the Exchequer will bear 4/10ths and the Shoreditch
Borough Council 3/10ths.