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in Westminster Road to the junction of Wrythe Lane, on the south by a
line along the centre of Wrythe Lane to Muschamp Road, and along the
centre of Muschamp Road to its junction with Green Wrythe Lane, and
on the east by the centre of Green Wrythe Lane to its junction with Thornton
Road.
This area involves 1,768 premises and covers 131 acres. The work of
preliminary survey was completed by October 1962, although application
to the Minister for an order was not made until after the end of the year.
In December 1962 the Council agreed the limits of the fifth area, which
is one bounded on the west by the boundary with the Borough of Sutton
& Cheam, on the north, from a point opposite the junction with Duke of
Edinburgh Road and Westminster Road, by a line along the rear of the
houses on the south side of Westminster Road to the junction of Wrythe
Lane thence south along the centre of Wrythe Lane to Muschamp Road
and along the centre of Muschamp Road to its junction with Green Wrythe
Lane, on the east by a line along the centre of Green Wrythe Lane to the
junction with Nightingale Road and Wrythe Green, and on the south
by a line along the centre of Wrythe Green Road to its junction with West
Street, thence along the centre of Wrythe Lane to the junction of Erskine
Road, and along the centre of Erskine Road to the district boundary.
This area is contiguous to the No. 4 Area and contains approximately
1,340 properties in 141.36 acres.
Owing to the length of time involved in connection with each zone,
work on as many as three is being carried on simultaneously at, of course,
differing stages.
Twenty-four complaints, mostly in respect of bonfires, were received
and dealt with during the year.
Many years ago the Council installed apparatus for measuring atmospheric
pollution. This consists of two deposit gauges, one sited in Winchcombe
Road and one in Buckhurst Avenue to measure the fall of grit per
square mile, also filters for measuring the amount of smoke in the atmosphere
and apparatus for the estimation of the sulphur dioxide content of
the air by chemical filtration. This equipment is sited at The Lodge in the
centre of the district. The recordings taken during the year were as follows