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300 were received in the last nine months before August 31st. As to the
actual work done, it seems the owners are spending on adaptations nearly
double the amount of grant received by them under the Act.
Order No. 2. At their meeting on the 3rd January, the Public Health
Committee agreed that the area between Eastcote Lane and the Metropolitan
and Piccadilly railway line at Rayners Lane on the one hand and
Alexandra Avenue and the Borough boundary with Ruislip/Northwood
on the other, should be declared as the Borough's (No. 2) Smoke Control
Area. This was an area of some 440 acres with some 3,600 dwellings and
other premises. At their meeting in September, the Committee agreed to
this area being divided into three, each to have its own Smoke Control
Order. This would enable the part covered by the first of these three
Orders to come into operation at an earlier date than if the area were to
be covered by the one Order, while at the same time, not delaying by many
weeks the coming into force of the third of the Orders. The decision
about the area to be covered by the No. 2 Order was therefore revoked
and instead No. 2 Order now relates to the smaller area bounded on the
south by Eastcote Lane but on the north by Malvern Avenue. This area is
some 105 acres with 1,119 dwellings and twenty-five commercial and
three other premises. Of these 1,119 dwellings, 744 are private dwellings
built before the Act and forty-six are private dwellings built after the Act,
272 are Council dwellings built before the Act of which 254 have already
been converted to use smokeless appliances and fifty-seven are Council
dwellings built after the Act. The estimated cost of adapting and replacing
the fireplaces was about £8,000. The proposed date for coming into
operation of the Order was 1st July, 1962. The Minister fixed 1st
September, 1962.
Order No. 3. By November, the survey of the No. 3 area was
complete. This area of approximately 132 acres with 1,071 hereditaments,
is bounded to the east by Alexandra Avenue, to the south by Malvern
Avenue, on the west by the Borough boundary with Ruislip and Northwood
and on the north by Widdicombe Way, Newquay Crescent and
Drake Road. Of the hereditaments, 1,069 are private dwellings. These
include sixty Council flats in Alexandra Avenue which are fitted with coal
burning appliances. The other two buildings are the Middlesex County
Council clinic in Alexandra Avenue and a school sports pavilion in
Malvern Avenue. There are no industrial or commercial properties in the
area. The estimated cost of the work of coversion is about £10,000. The
Council at its meeting on the 15th December made the No. 3 Order, to
come into operation not before September, 1st, 1962.
Programme. In January, the Minister of Housing and Local
Government asked the Council to submit a programme for extending
smoke control in the Borough. It was felt it should be possible to deal
with some 3,000 dwellings and premises or about 500 acres each year.
With the appointment of additional staff at the end of the year, it is
confidently expected there will be a marked speeding-up in the programme.