[Report 1961] / Medical Officer of Health, Birmingham.

  • Birmingham (England). Council.
Date:
1961
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    On the 1st September, twelve additional smoke control areas came into operation, ten of the areas being development sites for the erection of new dwellings, and with a smoke control order being applied to these areas this will ensure that all the new dwellings will be smokeless when occupied. The areas of these sites total forty-four acres and the orders will ultimately affect a total of five hundred and seventy-six dwellings. The remaining two areas coming into operation on the 1st September were the No. 4 and the No. 6 Smoke Control Areas. The No. 4 area covers an area of 218-5 acres between the Bull Ring, Camp Hill, Digbeth and Bristol Street, and will affect some five hundred and sixty dwellings and over nine hundred other premises. The No. 6 area affects the Nechells Green Redevelopment Area of 266-6 acres and will ultimately affect more than 3,800 dwellings and five hundred and fifty other premises. Three smoke control orders became operative on the 1st December, one small area adjoining the northern tip of Nechells Green Redevelopment Area, one in Pershore Road, and the other covering the area of Bangham Pit Farm Housing Estate. These areas total one hundred and seventy- two acres and bring 1,128 dwellings under smoke control. In addition to the orders which became operative during the year a further twenty-four smoke control orders, relating to sites of new develop- ment, were submitted to the Minister of Housing and Local Government and have been confirmed, coming into operation on the 1st July, 1962. This means that one hundred more acres and 1,553 dwellings will be covered by the orders. The City Council have made orders during the year for eight more areas of new development, seven areas of pre-war Municipal Housing Estates, and an order for the No. 5 Smoke Control Area. The seven areas of pre-war Municipal Housing Estates include areas at Stechford, Alum Rock, Harborne Lane, Quinton, Billesley and Kings Heath, whilst the No. 5 Smoke Control Area covers the district between the Bull Ring and the Coventry Road, and from Digbeth to Lawley Street. These orders have been submitted to the Minister for confirmation, and will make a considerable contribution towards the cause of smoke abatement by bringing under control more than 6,360 dwellings and approximately nine hundred and fifty other premises, within an area of 1,237 acres. The Minister of Housing and Local Government, in Circular No. 3/61 has indicated that necessary incidental works of adaptation may now a include the provision of electrical means of ignition for solid smokeless ] fuel and during the year two additional types of electric igniters made ? their appearance. j