Mr. SILVESTER HORNEasked what steps are being taken in the vast new colliery districts round Doncaster to apply the provisions of the Town Planning Act; and what pressure is being exercised by the Local Government Board upon the local authorities to insure that all the new colliery villages shall be built in accordance with proper designs, as contemplated by the Act in question?
§ Mr. BURNSA conference was held in May last of representatives of the local authorities in the Doncaster district at which I understand it was decided to be advisable that plans should be prepared of areas sutiable for town planning under the Housing, Town Planning, etc., Act, 1909, with a view to the preparation of a comprehensive scheme. No definite decision had been come to by the Doncaster Rural District Council at the end of October last to prepare a town-planning scheme for any 1006 area in their district. I have not lost sight of the matter or of its importance, but there are considerable difficulties arising in connection with the area in question which must not be underestimated.