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Where a local authority was satisfied that there was sufficient
slaughtering accommodation, private or public, available for their
district, and that no additional facilities were required, they could by
resolution determine that no further licences be granted or renewed in
respect of any premises not licensed on the date the resolution takes
effect. Claims for compensation could be made by any person having
an interest in any licensed slaughterhouse which could no longer operate
as a result of such a resolution.
Government's Long term Policy. Based on the recommendations of
the Inter-departmental Committee on Slaughtering, the White Paper
Cmd. 9761 of May, 1956 set out the policy. This was that central
planning of slaughterhouses was no longer advisable: instead, subject
to normal town planning requirements, and to the premises reaching
prescribed standards there should be a limited period during which
meat traders could be free to provide their own slaughterhouses of
the type and in the place that best suited their individual businesses.
After that period, a measure of control would be re-imposed. The
White Paper indicated that minimum standards would be prescribed
for the construction, layout and equipment of slaughterhouses which
would secure humane treatment of animals, hygienic conditions for
the handling of meat and satisfactory welfare facilities for the staff
employed. These would apply to new buildings as soon as the new
regulations are made, but not to existing premises until dates are
determined. The Slaughterhouses (Hygiene) Regulations 1958 and the
Slaughter of Animals (Prevention of Cruelty) Regulations 1958 designed
to secure the observance of sanitary and cleaner conditions in connection
with the construction and operation of slaughterhouses and the handling
of meat therein came into operation on 1st January, 1959, in relation
to new slaughterhouses.

*7 Northolt Road reconstructed
† Dracotts extended in November.