16 JANUARY 1942, Page 12

POST-WAR HOMES SIR,—Having read Mrs. Haig's letter on post-war cottages,

may I add one word of warning? Here in Lyme Regis our Council houses are pretty and well devised; but hardly any British architect takes reason- able precautions against the risk of pipes freezing. A winter or two ago, with only about so degrees of frost, there were hardly any houses in our vaunted Council houses where the pipes were not frozen, and of course burst. In my old county of Angus, where we have sometimes well below zero, so years ago a manse was to be built for a young minister; with Scotch thoroughness he went off to Switzerland and saw how pines were arranged there, with the result that . his pipes have never frozen.—Yours faithfully,