At the opening of the Cities and Town Planning Exhibition
at Crosby Hall, Chelsea, on Monday night, Mr. John Burns gave an interesting account of the working of the new Housing and Town Planning Act. He was then holding enquiries into him schemes affecting 10,000 acres of land; and, besides this, thirty or forty large urban authorities were considering schemes. Birmingham had received provisional sanction for a scheme covering 2,400 acres—a larger area than that occupied IT Battersea. Finally, the Ruislip and Northwood scheme dealt with 6,000 acres. "Our Act gives to the public protection, to the municipalities power, but to generous landlords oppor- tunities of co-operating for the benefit of the community." Mr. Burns added that he would be glad to see the science of urban life made part of the study at London University, "for what subject is more worthy of study when we remember that every fifteen years 500,000 acres of land are covered with buildings ? "
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