§ 73. Mr. Ronald Bellasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government whether he will introduce legislation to exclude from consideration in the valuation of properties for rating any work which has been carried out to improve the insulation of an hereditament against noise from aeroplanes.
§ Mr. MacCollNo. Rating assessments are based on rental value and anything that affects that value for better or worse ought to be taken into account. It would create difficult anomalies to depart from this principle.