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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.
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, 1967, 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.
London Borough of Merton Smoke Control Orders—
No. 1 1965 Operative date 1.10.66.
No. 2 1965 Operative date 1.11.66.
No. 3 1966 Operative date 1.10.67.
No. 4 1966 Operative date 1.10.67.
No. 5 1966 Operative date 1.11.67.
No. 6 1966 Operative date 1.12.67.
No. 7 1967 Operative date 1.10.68.
No. 8 1967 Order made 18.10.67 and awaiting confirmation.
Area No. 9 Under survey.
Area No. 10 Under survey.
The area of the Borough covered by Orders either in operation,
confirmed but not operative, or awaiting confirmation, is 5,517 acres.
The total number of premises involved in these areas is 30,398.
Comparable figures at the commencement of the year were 4,888
acres and 26,861 premises.
The two Smoke Control Areas under survey at the end of the
year will cover an additional 187 acres with 2,131 premises.
It is interesting to note that whereas on 1st January, 1968, the
percentage of the total 'black area' acreage in the Greater London
Area, which was covered by Smoke Control Orders confirmed or
awaiting decision, was 59.61, the comparative figure for the London
Borough of Merton was 58.8.
The total number of visits made during 1967 in connection with
the Clean Air Act, 1956, for all purposes, was 7,297.
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