* * * The force of many vivid imaginations, working
through the agency of the C.P.R.E., has been set to the solution. The Oxford Survey is a good example A small but not insig- nificant note appended by Mr. Rayson (an architect of real imagination in the making of small houses as well as in larger planning) indicated how even the most Philistine part of the population can be brought to see that the aesthetic side of the housing problem influences the social. He and very many of the " panels " of architects, now in being in most counties, have easily persuaded all sorts and conditions of owners to scrap the " concrete mendacities " they had planned in favour of the suitable designs offered gratuitously by architects of distinction. An immense amount has been achieved merely by suggestion. In this critical interval before regional plans of a wider conception are put into execution and backed by compulsory powers, the panels of architects who offer their honorary advice to local bodies have done and are doing yeoman service. The R.I.B.A., in association with the C.P.R.E., had a real inspiration when they launched the idea.
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