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Smoke Control Areas.
The Clean Air Act, 1956, embodies provisions designed to reduce
pollution from both industrial and domestic sources, including
the creation of smoke control areas. Air pollution has an intimate
effect upon people's lives and its control is, in my opinion, essential.
I consider the prohibition of the use of bituminous coal, and of other
smoke producing fuels, and their replacement by smokeless fuels in
the form of manufactured solid fuel, gas and electricity, and, under
certain approved conditions, oil fuel, to be one of the greatest environmental
improvements of our time. The Council has already approved
a scheme to cover the Borough with Smoke Control Orders by 1975,
and this work is proceeding steadily. The position on 31st December,
1966, was as follows:—
Wimbledon Smoke Control Orders—
No. 1 1962 Operative date 1.12.63.
No. 2 1962 Operative date 1.6.64.
No. 3 1963 Operative date 1.10.64.
No. 4 1963 Operative date 1.7.65.
Merton and Morden Smoke Control Orders—
No. 1 1961 Operative date 1.10.62.
No. 2 1961 Operative date 1.10.62
No. 3 1962 Operative date 1.10.63.
No. 4 1963 Operative date 1.10.64.
No. 5 1963 Operative date 1.10.64.
No. 6 1964 Operative date 1.10.65.
No. 7 1965 Operative date 1.10.66.
Mitcham Smoke Control Orders—
No. 1 1963 Operative date 1.12.63.
No. 2 1963 Operative date 1.11.64.
No. 3a 1964 Operative date 1.11.65.
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