§ 50. Mr. James Danceasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs whether he is yet in a position to give 30W the Worcestershire County Council details of the modifications which he proposes to make to their Green Belt proposals.
Dr. HillI have sent the County Council details of my proposed modifications to their Green Belt proposals following my Inspector's report. At the same time I have drawn attention to the recent studies showing that the number of families who may have to move from Birmingham will be much larger than was believed when Worcestershire drew up their proposals and said that after carefully considering the problem I concluded that it would be premature to give a final decision upon any Green Belt proposals in this area until the full implications of the situation as now seen have been explored. I hope however that all possible progress will be made between Birmingham and the counties towards agreement on town development programmes on the basis of the existing Green Belt proposals with the modifications which I propose.