87. Mrs. Butlerasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs what is the number of schemes for central redevelopment approved since 1951 to the latest convenient date; and what is the number of applications at present under consideration by him.
§ Mr. CorfieldSince 1951, 75 comprehensive development area schemes have bean approved in central areas under the Town and Country Planning Act, 1947. A further 58 schemes have been submitted but not yet approved.
88. Mrs. Butlerasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs if he will publish a list of the towns in which central redevelopment has taken place, together with a list of the towns covered by applications at present in his hands.
§ Mr. CorfieldDetailed information about the progress of redevelopment schemes is not available but I will, with permission, circulate in the OFFICIAL REPORT a list of towns with schemes which have been approved and those with schemes submitted but not yet approved.
35WThe following towns have central redevelopment schemes approved, or submitted but not yet approved, under
Towns with Schemes approved Towns with Schemes submitted but not yet approved Aylesbury Leeds Andover Leicester Beckenham Lewisham Barking Littlehampton Birmingham Lichfield Barnsley Luton Blackburn Liverpool Bedlingtonshire Middleton Bootle City of London Blackburn Milford Haven Brigg Newport Pagnell Bootle Nailsea Bristol Norwich Brighton Newcastle-on-Tyne Burnley Nuneaton Bromley Newmarket Cambridge Oldham Burnley Oldbury Canterbury Plymouth Burton-on-Trent Pontefract Chatham Portsmouth Bury Poole Chichester St. Austell Cambridge Poplar Consett Salford Castleford Poulton-le-Fylde Coventry Scarborough Cirencester Preston Deal Sherborne Cramlington Slough Dover Sheffield Dagenham Solihull Dudley Southampton Durham Sunderland Exeter South Shields East Ham Sutton-in-Ashfield Falmouth Southwark Gateshead Swindon Fareham Southwick Halesowen Teignmouth Finsbury Stepney High Wycombe West Hartlepool Folkestone Stockton-on-Tees Ilford Westminster (Knightsbridge) Gosport Stoke-on-Trent Keighley Great Yarmouth Swansea Kidderminster Wigan Grimsby Torpoint Leeds Yeovil Hailsham Wallasey Halesowen Walthamstow Harrow West Ham Hebburn Weston-Super-Mare Jarrow Whitehaven Kendal Winchester Kenilworth Woolwich Keynsham Worcester Kingston-upon-Hull Worthing Lambeth
NOTES: ( a) The list includes towns where orders were made under the Town and Country Planning Act, 1944, for dealing with war damage or blight in the central area. (b) Some towns have more than one scheme awaiting approval.