12 FEBRUARY 1927, Page 3

Rural districts arc afraid that the very wealth of their

beauty will be despoiled, but the case of London is different. Here the problem is to safeguard the rare equivalents of rural delights by preventing the builder from overrunning unsecured spaces. The chief danger is, of course, to the London squares. In a paper read before the Surveyors' Institution on Monday, Mr. Frank Hunt pointed out that the London squares are a distinctive possession of London. St. James's Square, Leicester Square and Bloomsbury Square date from soon after the middle of the seventeenth century. Cadogan Square, the latest of the great squares, was laid out in 1883.

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