[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
SiR,—In reply to the inquiry by your correspondent, Mr. J. W. Scott, of University College, Cardiff, the Town Planning and Housing Acts contain wide powers and provisions for muni- cipalities promoting housing or town-planning schemes, to enable them to acquire either by agreement or compulsion if necessary, subject to the consent of Government Departments, any lands necessary for the purpose of housing sites for the working classes, whether such lands are inside or outside their own districts. A proposal for land outside would require more proof and might encounter more opposition.
The purchase price or amount of compensation payable is, if not settled by agreement, determined by an official arbitrator under the Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1919, which lays down lines as to the method of calculation of such compensation, and excludes, for instance, the 10 per cent. allowance, which previously used to be paid for com- pulsory purchase.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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