Town and Country Planning To the Town and Country Planning
Bill, which survived its second reading in the House of Commons on Wednes7 day, we gave our blessing three weeks ago. There was nothing in Wednesday's debate to shake the conviction which we then expressed that the Bill, in principle, was fundamentally sound and enlightened. We cling, however, to our original criticism of detail. Regional planning should not be treated like a cuckoo's egg and dumped in the first Departmental nest that comes to hand. Already 592 local authorities are at work on 939 town-planning schemes . covering 6,500,000 acres of land. To hand over ultimate responsibility for an issue which has already reached those dimensions to a busy Minister without providing any form of advisory machin- ery for its administration seems to us one of the surest ways to court failure.
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