§ 23. Mr. Archerasked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will make it is his policy to demolish the Divis flats and replace them with low-rise housing, in the light of a report submitted to him by the Town and Country Planning Association.
§ Mr. NeedhamThe Divis complex is structually sound. The Housing Executive has put forward proposals for extensive refurbishment starting with the rehabilitation as a pilot exercise of one block which would enable a full evaluation to be made. If the site were cleared, more than half of the residents could not be rehoused there in traditional houses.