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dulcl. But very often they simply won't mix. The London County Council wants to put up high blocks of flats as a solution to the housing problem- utile. But it wants to put them right in Old Hampstead, close : to the edge of the Heath, near Holly Hill, The Grove, Romney's House—everything that gives that delightful and almost unique : corner its charm. Quite irreconcilable with dulce. Hampstead Borough Council concedes that there must be some houses there ; it has a long waiting-list of applicants. But they would be : planned with due regard for the amenities, and the skyscraper Style would be resolutely eschewed. Every argument, it seems to me, tells in favour of the Borough Council, not least the fact that the L.C.C. proposal runs clean counter to the Hampstead and Highgate development scheme. I hope that the Minister ' of Housing and Local Government, if the question is finally carried up to him, will back Hampstead. (I have no personal ,, interest in the matter to declare ; I do not live in Hampstead, and rarely set foot there.)
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