A Check on Ribbon Building The Ministers of Health and
Transport .having declared jointly that ribbon develoPment 'of roads is ugly, un- economic and -Potentially dangerous, and that they are Studying ways of checking the evil, two assumptionsmay reasonably be made : (1) Preventive legislation, sooner or later; will be passed to stop the loss of life and the frustiation of the purposes foi. which arterial roads are built (2) EXploiting bnilders will bisten to make hay while the sun shines. These are 'the' ficts which hilve called forth the cogent letter addressed ,to,the Ministers by a group of persons well qualified to speak on behalf of the preservation of England and the rights, of road-users, They urge that speed in legislation has beep* more than ever necessary since profiteers. will certainly accelerate their schemee in view of the Ministers' pronouncement. Powers have already been conferred on the County Councils of Surrey, Middlesex and Essex to control building along their main roads. _,Pending more drastic legislation, a short measure confeEring similtar powers on all County Councils would do something to gap this disastrous process of exploitation, and it is satisfactory to know that the Government is to introduce:such a Bill. It would be more satisfactory to ,kno* that it intended to secure to the public some part at any, rate of the increased values with which enntiguOus nd-owners are endowed by the construction of arterial: roads..
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