HC Deb 25 May 1965 vol 713 cc45-6W
50. Mr. Deedes

asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government whether he has studied the memorandum from the joint sub-committee of Kent Archaeological Society and Committee for the Preservation of Rural Kent on defects in the law relating to the preservation of buildings of architectural and historic interest; and what reply he proposes to make to their recommendations.

Mr. Crossman

Yes. I shall be replying to it shortly and will send the hon. Member a copy of my reply. I am in sympathy with many of the recommendations made in the memorandum. The hon. Member may like to know that we have already doubled the clerical staff concerned with listing buildings under Section 33 of the Town and County Planning Act, 1962, and that we are urgently studying the problems involved in protecting groups of buildings of architectural and historical interest.