2 JULY 1942, Page 14

OUR FUTURE HOMES

SIR,—" There is no question that Mr. Osborn burkes the problem of what to do with the existing wens." This sentence in Miss Jacquetta Hawkes' review of three of my booklets is so emphatically worded, and so untrue that it justifies a breach of the convention of not replying to a review. It is just that problem I deal with. The Land and Planning studies the compensation problems it involves. New Towns after the War and Planning and the Countryside are concerned with methods of decentralisation, and in both the main argument given for decentrali- sation is the necessity for more space inside the " wens " for their satis- factory development.—Yours, &c, F. J. OSBORN. I6 Guessens Road, Welwyn Garden City, Herts.