Conservative conservation
Sir: As the part author of Save the City. A Conservation Study of the City of London, mentioned in Gavin Stamp's stimulating article Another Vision of Britain (13 Janu- ary), may I point out that the title is as above, not . . . A Conservative Study as printed? Gavin Stamp's is a wonderful summary of changing fashions and public feeling concerning architecture and townscape over half a century. Might you publish it separately (with illustrations?), provided Dr Stamp revises the last paragraph, where he says 'We have had a government . . which has not only been malevolently hostile to conservation. . . .' This is going too far. Successive Conservative (the word is right here) governments have shown themselves favourable to building and landscape conservation, refusing or allow- ing developments as may be more appropriate in the cause of preservation. Even the much maligned `Ridicholas Nim- by' refused the plan for a new suburban town called Stone Bassett in Oxfordshire, and has saved parts of the Green Belt on several occasions.
David W. Lloyd
17 Fore Street, Harlow, Essex
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