§ 29. Sir E. Erringtonasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs what encouragement he is giving to the use of the Consortium of Local Authorities Special Programme in assisting the building of council and other residential dwellings.
Dr. HillMy Department is working on the possible development of a system for house building similar to that used for schools by the Consortium referred to by my hon. Friend. The first experimental project has been recently completed: this is a block of flatlets for old people which I opened at Stevenage last week. Further work is now being done to apply the system to the building of family houses and flats.
In addition. I am encouraging the formation of consortia by local housing authorities with big slum clearance problems, in order to promote technical co-operation on the basis of large-scale forward building programmes.