FLATS ON THE VILLAGE GREEN
Sta,—With reference to that " shock almost of horror " that the excellent " W. B. T." received when he " read (in the Countryman of all papers) the suggestion that flats in place, of cottages should fringe the village green," I ought perhaps to mention that the suggestion was not that of the review, but of a well-known farmer, some of the value of whose contributions depends on our allowing him to speak his mind. In any case, a farmer advocating flats on the village green was surely sufficiently unusual to ward off the blue pencil. And " W. B. T.'s " preference for gardens rather than allotments was shared in an editorial note. Further, in my private capacity as chairman of the Rural District Council Housing Committee I have had pleasure in siting a number of cottages on a quarter of an acre apiece in order. that allotments might be dispensed with In my own hamlet all the allotments have been given up because the gardens, at the back and front doors, provide, in the most convenient way, all the ground needed.—Yours faithfully,
J. W. ROBERTSON SCOTT.
" Countryman" Office, Idbury, Kingham, Oxfordshire.
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