§ 35. Mr. LUNN (for Mr. PRICE)asked the Minister of Health whether special consideration will be given in the case of local authorities who have been preparing housing schemes but whose application was delayed beyond 7th December, with special reference to cases where land already purchased and only partially developed will become a burden upon the rates?
Sir H. YOUNGWhile the most sympathetic consideration will be given in cases of doubt, I shall not be able, assuming the Bill to be passed in its present form, to consider applications made after the date named in respect of which a preliminary communication has not been made to me by the local authority.
§ Mr. LUNNDid the Minister of Health give any warning to the local authorities that the proposed schemes were to be abandoned, and, if so, what amount of warning did he give; and is he willing to consider giving compensation to local authorities who have spent the rate- 502 payers money in preparing these schemes, imagining that the law was to continue as it was?