Overcrowding at Cambridge
sm,—Further to Mr. Wilson's letter in the Spectator of October 21st, I should like to point out that, in addition to being a nuisance in Cambridge, the Eastern Regional Administration is not well sited for the area it purports to serve. Geographically, Bury St. Edmunds is better, while there is much to be said for it being in Norwich, the chief city of East Anglia. A strong body of opinion in East Anglia now feels it should have more say in its own administration,. and maintains that, if only Whitehall would relax its grasp, many of the *3,000 civil servants referred to by Mr. Wilson would become redundant, their work being done by existing Council organisations directed by voluntary advisers. These advisers, recruited on the J.P. principle, from the practical life of the area, as being leaders in their various trades or professions, would, it is felt, bring much needed common-sense to bear on today's problems.
Really essential planning would be done by men and women with local 'knowledge, to the benefit of the public purse, national productivity, the people of the arca and the University of Cambridge.—I am, Sir, yours
faithfully, C. Mc!. DELF. The Old Vicarage, Yoxford, Suffolk.
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