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the 1953 Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act raised this
sum to 5s. The former Urban District Council, although it considered
the matter, made no use of these powers.
Refuse Disposal
The three constituent authorities of the Urban District Council
adopted different methods of disposing of house refuse, that from
Harrow-on-the-Hill being burnt at the incineration plant at South
Harrow, that for Wealdstone being treated at the separation plant at
Elmgrove Road and that from the Hendon Rural District being disposed
of by controlled tipping at various sites. The Urban District Council
decided before the war to treat the refuse from the Harrow area at the
hyganic plant. Work on this was started before the war but was
abandoned. Owing to the altered composition of the house refuse
during the war years, the use of the incineration plant at South Harrow
and the separation plant in Wealdstone was discontinued. For a time
then the 50,000 tons of refuse was disposed of by controlled tipping at
various sites in the district. As these had a very limited life arrangements
were made for the refuse to be disposed of by controlled tipping
at a site at Hillingdon. The contract with the Uxbridge Council for this
arrangement runs to 31st March, 1959. In the meantime though the
Council had decided that the refuse should be treated by incineration
at one or more plants. A public enquiry was held in 1949 into the
Council's proposals to erect a new incinerator on the site of the old
plant in South Harrow.
Street Cleansing
The lengths of highways repairable by the public are the nine miles
of roads directly maintained by the Middlesex County Council, the 36
miles of main roads maintained by the district council under agreement
with the Middlesex County Council, and the 163 miles of district roads.
The entire length of roads is divided into eighty beats, the street
cleansing service being operated by eighty street orderlies and four
mechanical sweepers.
Of the county roads those in shopping centres are cleansed twice
daily, the remaining Class 1 roads once a day and Class 2 and 3 roads
twice or three times weekly.
Of the district roads, those in shopping centres are swept once daily,
the bus routes and other important thoroughfares once a week and
other roads once in every ten days. Sunday cleansing is limited to some
eight miles of roads in shopping centres.
PUBLIC CONVENIENCES
There are five public conveniences sited near shopping centres in
the district where male and female staff are in attendance. They are at
Station Road, North Harrow; Peel Road, Wealdstone; Havelock Place,
Harrow; High Road, Harrow Weald; Whitchurch Lane, Edgware.
The conveniences are open every day of the year (Christmas Day
excepted) from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. Monday to Saturday and from 8 a.m.
to 10 p.m. on Sunday.