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Rockmount Area
This Area adjoins the Abbey Wood No. 3 Smoke Control Area.
It comprises that part of the London County Council Rockmount Road
Redevelopment Scheme which is not already within the Abbey Wood
No. 3 Area. It consists of some five acres and will contain
250 newly erected London County Council permanent dwellings.
Operative date:- 1st October, 1963.
Eltham Area
This is a large Area of predominently private property. It
comprises 1,550 acres and 5,325 dwellings. Of the total number of
properties, 358 are Borough Council permanent dwellings, 763 are
London County Council permanent dwellings, and the remainder are
private dwellings. In the County Council dwellings and in the
majority of the Borough Council dwellings, no works of conversion
are necessary. Included in this Area are 423 shops, offices or
other non-domestic buildings. Approximately 2,900 private dwellings
require 4,320 solid fuel appliances, and a further 623 dwellings
require gas ignition only. Operative date:- 1st October, 1964.
NEW AREA
During the year preliminary work commenced upon a further
large area in Eltham, to be known as the Well Hall Smoke Control
Area. It will comprise 540 acres, involving some 4,200 dwellings,
virtually all of which are privately owned. It is estimated that
some 3,000 dwellings will require works of conversion. It is
anticipated that the operative date will be 1st October,, 1964.
GENERAL
At the end of the year there were 2,854 acres and 19,473
dwellings within operative Smoke Control Areas, and a further
1,589 acres and 6,159 dwellings within Areas being brought into
operation. Details of the acreage and number of properties in
these Areas are set out in Table No. 14 and the accompanying map.
PROCEDURE
As referred to in my previous Annual Report, the Minister
of Housing and Local Government has adopted a simpler administrative
procedure to enable authorities to obtain preliminary approval for
new Smoke Control Areas. During the year the Minister issued a
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