[Report 1959] / Medical Officer of Health, Blaby R.D.C.

  • Blaby (England). Rural District Council.
Date:
1959
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Credit: [Report 1959] / Medical Officer of Health, Blaby R.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Very many enquiries have been received from persons who desire to bring caravans into the District, but there would appear to be a lack oi suitable sites in respect of which Planning Approval could be given and a licence issued under Section 269, Public Health Act 1936. Although several contraventions of the law relating to the stationing of caravans have been reported upon, because of difficulties of enforcement, and other circumstances the Council has been reluctant to institute proceedings. In one case, however, a summons was taken out and a conviction obtained for the stationing of a caravan without a licence having been issued. It is anticipated that the Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act, due to come into operation in 1960, will introduce a new system of licensing caravan sites, and do much to solve the present difficult problem. 17. FACTORIES With the general growth and development of the District several new factories have been built in the past few years, and others are planned. As well as Agriculture, Horticulture, Stone Quarrying and Sand-digging, and in addition to small workplaces and works of building operations, there are now 155 premises on the Register of Factories in some of which the foil owing industries are established. Housing 15 Knitwear 10 Dyeing 1 Boots and Shoes 14 Leather products 3 T oe-pu f f s 2 Bedding and upholstery 1 Pearlbuttons 1 Cardboard boxes 1 Photographic equipment 1 Electrical components 1 Food manufacture 8 Wallpaper 1 Light and general engineering Motor vehicle repairs Sawmilling Woodworking and joinery Pattern making Coach building B oat buiIding Firelighters Concrete products Brickmaking Asphalte and tarmacadam Metal sorting