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CLEAN AIR ACT. 1956. (Cont.).
(iv) That the Buildings and Town Planning
Committee be recommended to take steps
forthwith to make a building byelaw as
to the provision of smokeless heating
and cooking appliances in new buildings;
(The Town Council duly made a byelaw as
to the provision of smokeless heating
and cooking appliances in new buildings
and submitted to the Minister of Housing
and Local Government for confirmation
in accordanco with section 250 of the
Local Government Act, 1933).
(v) That the Borough Engineer, in consultation
with the Chief Public Health Inspector,be
asked to report as to the possibility of
using smokeless fuels in the various offices
and public buildings of the Corporation
and as to any additional expenditure which
would be necessary in that connection.
Subsequently discussions took place between Officers of
the Council and the Regional Director of the Ministry of Fuel
& Power, and after debate the Council decided to take no
action further than the above but to review the matter in the
Spring of 1960.
MOVEABLE DWELLINGS.
Thirty-nine licences to station and use moveable
dwellings (caravans) were granted during the year.
The local Sports Club which holds the lease of tho
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.
All standings on the extended site became occupied
during the year.
Of the 39 licences issued 36 were in respect of the
Riverhill site and 3 for caravans stationed on odd sites
throughout the Borough.
DUSTBINS.
Twenty dustbins were provided, one as a result of statutory
notice and nineteen by the service of informal notices.
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. Only one such case had
to be decided during the year under review.
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