§ 35. Sir J. Rodgersasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government if he will take steps to see that the Greater London Council do not introduce urban slab blocks eight storeys high in its development plans for its estate at Edenbridge, thus destroying the rural aspect.
§ Mr. MacCollTwo eight-storey point blocks of flats are included in a planning application from the Greater London Council which is now before Kent County Council as local planning authority. My right hon. Friend is willing to leave the county council to decide the application.
§ Sir J. RodgersAs I understand that the county council has withheld approval of this scheme owing to numerous complaints, will the Minister impress upon the G.L.C. the desirability, when planning its overspill developments, of not ruining the countryside by importing undesirable features of the London scene into rural England?
§ Mr. MacCollThis is essentially a planning matter which should be left, in the first place, to the planning authority to decide.