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MOVEABLE POLLINGS.
Thirty-nine licences to station and use moveable dwellings
(caravans) were granted during the year.
The local Sports Club which holds the lease of the Riverhill
Estate was granted permission to increase the number of caravans
from 24 to 36, subject to the additional 12 being taken from
offending sites in the Borough or elsewhere in Surrey. This
condition was imposed by the County Council under Planning powers
in furtherance of its policy to reduce the number of permanent
caravan dwellers in the County.
Most of the standings on the extended site were occupied by
the end of the year and applicants for the remaining site were
being considered.
Of the 39 licences issued 35 were in respect of the Riverhill
site and 1+ for caravans stationed on odd sites throughout the
Borough.
The unlicensed site referred to in previous reports, having
been compulsory acquired by the Council for housing purposes,
was closed during the year.
DUSTBINS.
Twenty dustbins were provided as a result of statutory and
informal notices served.
The ambiguity of the Public Health Act which provides that
the local authority may require either the owner or occupier of
any building to provide a dustbin still gives rise to difficulties
necessitating a judicial decision by the Council in all disputed
cases.
The one case so decided by the Council was accepted by the
parties concerned and was not the subject of an appeal to the
Magistrates.

Disinfection was also carried out at twenty premises on
request, the occupier in each case paying the cost.
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