82. Mr. Brian Harrisonasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government, whether he will cause a review to be carried out on the incidence of hardship caused by the making up of private roads by local authorities.
§ Mr. MacCollAs I informed the hon. Member for Newcastle-upon-Tyne, North (Mr. R. W. Elliott) in reply to a Question on 23rd December, 1964, a survey of arrangements for making up private streets was undertaken by the Department about five years ago. This showed that the existing law, if sympathetically administered, enables equitable results to be secured and provides means of mitigating hardship in the relatively few cases where hardship would otherwise occur. Nothing has happened since to lead my right hon. Friend to suppose that any useful purpose would be served by instituting another review now.