On The Blacklist of Smokeless Zones

Conisbrough, Rawmarsh, and Mexborough Urban councils are among 58 local authorities including included in a list of “black areas” who have not yet made any smoke control orders.

The Minister of Housing and local government, has given them, and 24 other local authorities who smoke control orders include lesson 1000 premises “these include Wath close bracket, until March 31 to review their attitude toward domestic smoke control and to report back to him.

Mr Crossan says that in the light of their response he will decide whether he should seek an opportunity of asking Parliament to make smoke control a statutory duty.

He hopes that they will prepare and submit to the Department a planned programme of smoke control for their areas and then take steps to implement it.

Conisbrough

Delays in adopting smoke control in Conisbrough and Denaby have been partly due to objections over replacing miners concessionary coal by smokeless fuel. Pollution gauges in the town measures as much as 25 tons per square mile during the winter months.

A scheme to make the district smokeless over a period of five years is already in existence and may be considered by the public health committee next month following their ministers warning.

A public health department official said: “We prepared a scheme for smoke control over four years ago, but it hasn’t yet been implemented. The district has been divided into various areas to be dealt with over five years, air pollution figures are not yet available but I expect them to be no better and no worse than the last report for 1963.