§ 31. Mr. Hunterasked the Postmaster-General when telephone kiosks will be provided on the Sparrow Farm Housing Estate, Feltham, and the Butts Farm Housing Estate, Hanworth.
Dr. HillTwo kiosks will be provided on the Sparrow Farm Estate by next summer; two more will be provided when the pavements in the shopping centre are made up. There are already five kiosks on the Butts Farm Estate, and a site for a sixth has been tentatively agreed with the local authority.
§ Mr. HunterWhile appreciating the desire of the Postmaster-General to help these two large housing estates, I should like to ask him whether the Post Office could not look ahead regarding these estates. Some of these large housing estates often take four or five years to build. Why should they be finished before the Post Office comes along to instal public telephones? Surely while the estates are being built, public telephones could be installed. I ask the Postmaster-General to give consideration to that.
Dr. HillI appreciate the point. In neither of the two cases which the hon. Gentleman has quoted has the estate been finished. The Post Office itself has considerable difficulties—problems anyway —with the local authorities which cannot be resolved until the estate is under way.