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SECTION 12 (Adaptation of fireplaces in private dwellings). A total of 1,180
formal notices were served on the owners of private dwellings in the Hackney
No 1 Central Smoke Control Area requiring the carrying out of adaptations
in or in connection with the dwelling to avoid contraventions of the Orders
made under the foregoing section. Some 324 tenants made alternative arrangements
for heating their premises and decided that they did not wish to have
their fireplaces adapted or converted.
Applicationsfrom three owners of private dwellings, one a private
individual and two charities, concerned with a total of 24 properties, were
made to the Council for grants in excess of the statutory 70%, but the
Committee having considered the financial circumstances of the applicants,
decided to refuse the applications from two of the owners; with regard to the
third application, the Committee decided to pay the full cost of the thirteen
adaptations necessary in accommodation specially provided for aged persons by
a charitable trust.
SECTION 15 (Power of local authority to make grants towards adaptations to
fireplaces in churches, chapels, buildings used by charities, &c.).
Consideration was given to the implementation of this section, which empowers
the Borough Council, on application by the owner or occupier, to make grants
towards adaptations to fireplaces in churches, chapels, buildings used by
charities, etc. and on the 21st April, 1959, the Borough Council took the
following decisions applying general principles under which grants will be made
by the Council as respects the premises set out in column (1) hereunder on the
scale set out in column (2):-
(1)
(a) Any place of public religious worship
being a place which belongs to the
Church of England or which is for the
time being certified as required by
law as a place of religious worship;
(b) Any church hall, chapel hall or
similar premises used in connection
with any such place of public religious
worship and so used for the purposes
of the organisation responsible for
the conduct of public religious
worship in that place;
(c) Any voluntary aided school, as
defined in the Education Act, 1944;
(d) Any premises or part of any premises
occupied for the purposes of an
organisation (whether corporate or
un incorporate) which is not established
or conducted for profit and
whose main objects are charitable
or are otherwise concerned with the
advancement of religion, education or
social welfare.
(2)
Up to a maximum of 3/10ths
of the approved expenditure.
do
do.
Up to a maximum of 5/10ths
of the approved expenditure
The Public Health Committee considered an application for assistance
in respect of one premises used primarily as a Youth Club and agreed to
Pay 50% of the cost of the works of adaptation considered to be reasonably
necessary
SECTION 16 (Abatement of Smoke Nuisances). This section so far as London
is concerned, enacts that-