Viscountess ASTORasked the Minister of Health if the City of Bath has yet set up the advisory committee to control the design of buildings, as they are empowered to do under the Bath Corporation Act, 1994; and whether similar committees have yet been set up at Ruislip and Oxford?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINBath obtained the powers in 1925; the Council have not yet established an advisory committee, pending the settlement of new by-laws. Oxford have not obtained similar powers, but propose to do so in their town-planning scheme. The Ruislip-Northwood Council, under a town-planning scheme of 1914, may require alterations in the elevation of buildings; if there is a dispute, the matter is to be settled by an arbitrator appointed by the President of the Royal Institute of British Architects. There is no advisory committee.