HC Deb 06 July 1944 vol 401 c1303
41. Mr. Hutchinson

asked the Minister of Town and Country Planning whether he intends to set up a regional planning authority for London to include the City and County of London and the areas surrounding London.

Mr. W. S. Morrison

I am not yet in a position to add to the reply which I gave to my hon. and learned Friend on the 27th January, 1944.

Mr. Hutchinson

Will my right hon. and learned Friend bear in mind that there are large schemes of re-development at present under consideration by certain authorities in this district and that these schemes are being proceeded with at the present time without any means of co-ordinating them with the requirements of other places in the area?

Mr. Morrison

As my hon. and learned Friend knows, I recently received the Report of Professor Abercrombie on the Greater London Area, and, of course, the appropriate organisation for planning depends upon further consideration of that plan.