HC Deb 17 December 1946 vol 431 cc346-7W
95. Mr. J. Morrison

asked the Minister of Town and Country Planning the qualifications of the eight members appointed to the Stevenage Development Corporation.

Mr. Silkin

As the reply is necessarily rather long, I will, with the hon. Member's permission, circulate it in the OFFICIAL REPORT.

The following are the names and qualifications of the members of the Stevenage New Town Development Corporation:

Mr. CLOUGH WILLIAMS-ELLIS (Chairman). Architect; Chairman of the Council for Preservation of Rural Wales; member of the Town Planning Institute; fellow of the Institute of Landscape Architects; owns and is designing and building Port-meirion in North Wales.

Dr. MONICA FELTON (Vice-Chairman). Member of the Hertfordshire County Council (by which her name was put forward to the Minister). Served as a member of the New Towns Committee. Formerly member of the L.C.C. for S.W. St. Pancras, 1937–46; Chairman of L.C.C. Supplies Committee, 1939–41; member of the Housing and Town Planning Committee; served in the Ministry of Supply, 1941–42; Clerk, House of Commons, 1942–43; lecturer to H.M. Forces and for London University Tutorial Classes Committee; governor of the London School of Economics.

Mr. CAMPBELL ALLEN: 1st Class Honours Mechanical Science Tripos, Cambridge; was director of Building and Financial Operations in the John Lewis Partnership, 1932–46; member of the London Diocesan Reorganisation Committee.

Mr. HINLEY ATKINSON. Until recently was on the staff of the Labour Party, where he was responsible for its organisation in the County of London and the Greater London Area; was a member of the Ministry of Information, London Regional Committee, from its inception.

Councillor FRANK CORBETT. Mayor of Wood Green (which is one of the Authorities intending to "export" population and industry to Stevenage); Alderman of the Middlesex C.C.; Chairman of the Wood Green Divisional Executive of the Middlesex County Education Committee; chief of the Legal Department of the National Union of Railwaymen; member of the Trades Union Congress Committee on Industrial Diseases. His name was put forward by the Wood Green Borough Council.

Alderman W. J. GRIMSHAW. Chartered accountant. Member of the Hornsey Borough Council (which is one of the authorities intending to "export" population and industry to Stevenage) since 1927; represents the council on the Housing, Education and Health Committees of the Association of Municipal Corporations; member of the Middlesex C.C.; chairman of the Non-County Boroughs Association. His name was put forward by the Hornsey Borough Council.

Councillor P. T. IRETON. Member of the Stevenage U.D.C. and chairman of its Town Planning Committee for some years; member of the Herts. C.C.; railway clerk. His name was put forward both by the Stevenage U.D.C. and by the Herts. C.C.

Mrs. ELIZABETH MCALLISTER. Editor of "Town and Country Planning"; formerly public relations officer to the Town and Country Planning Association; joint author (with Gilbert McAllister) of "Town and Country Planning—The Prelude to Post-War Reconstruction," 1941; and joint editor (with Gilbert McAllister) of "Homes, Towns and Countryside," 1945.