§ Mr. CASSELasked the President of the Local Government Board what local authorities have passed resolutions or sent communications to the Board in favour of altering the appeal under The Housing, Town Planning, etc., Act, 1909, to the Local Government Board?
§ Mr. BURNSThe following is the list:—
1436W Of the seventy-one local authorities who have made the representations, only three had any experience of appeal procedure prior to the making of the representation, and in these cases the appeal was abandoned at an early stage before any local inquiry had been held.
16 Metropolitan Borough Councils. Battersea Hampstead Chelsea Holborn Deptford Kensington Finsbury Lambeth Fulham Lewisham Greenwich St Pancras Hackney Wandsworth Hammersmith Westminster County Borough Councils. None. 2 other Town Councils. Stratford-upon-Avon Welshpool 20 other Urban District Councils. Abercarn Itchen Beaconsfield Leigh-on-Sea Carshalton Llanrwst Chingford Penge Dawlish Portslade-by-Sea Earsdon Romford Erith St. Neots Frimley Selby Grays Thurrock Shepton Mallet Hessle Walton-upon-Thames 33 Rural District Councils. Alcester Melford Alresford Monmouth Aylsham Penybont Barnstaple Pontefract Basingstoke Romford Blaby Skipton Cannock South Stoneham Cerne Stockbridge Cheltenham Thirsk Cirencester Tisbury Driffield Tiverton East Grinstead Vaynor and Penderyn Faversham Foleshill Whiston Guildford Wight, Isle of Halesowen Wincanton Hoxne Winchcomb