Re: At Last The 1955 Show


victormeldrewsyoungerbrother wrote:
David Jackson wrote:
The message <nemdg.150$xH1.41@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
from "Ken Ward" <ken.g1itv@xxxxxxxxxxxx> contains these words:

Wasn't the CAA brought in at Local Council level and not nationally?

Not only that, but the Orders had to be "confirmed", and some weren't.
There are open fires in several houses in our road, burning real
coal...quite legally. It ain't 'alf nostalgic walking past the windows
of those close to the pavement on cold winter days, seeing the flames in
the grate, when all we've got are gas fires. OTOH, of course, we don't
have as much cleaning up to do, no ashes to clear, etc.

--
Dave,
Frodsham

Actually, having raised this issue, I have to admit that I still burn a
coal fire, living as I do in a country cottage without any mains gas.
But, now I think on't I do think your right about the CAA being
adoptive. Doesn't alter the point, though. Imagine trying to run a
steam railway across boundaries of councils, some of which had adopted
and some which hadn't - and in the 1960s local authority areas were
much smaller


And I've found this:-

The Clean Air Acts introduced Smoke Control Zones, designed to
dramatically improve air quality. Prior to local Government
re-organisation in 1974, a large green-field area of Seaton Valley,
which was to become Cramlington new town, was declared a smoke control
area. Although no conversions were carried out at this time all houses
built after the declaration, which was in the early 1970's, had to be
compliant.

Blyth Valley Council followed this initiative in 1984 by declaring a
rolling smoke control programme that lasted until 1992. The whole of
Blyth Valley Borough is now a smoke control zone and the burning of
none-compliant solid fuels is therefore prohibited.

Confirms that smoke control zones were declared by relevant local
authority - but note that it is the 'burning of non compliant solid
fuels' that is prohibited, not the emission of smoke

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