§ 44. Mr. J. Silvermanasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government and Minister for Welsh Affairs if he 198W will make an inquiry into, and a statement upon, the circumstances in which the Solihull Borough Council, having refused development permission to Mrs. E. M. Clarke and Mr. J. B. Raven in respect of a plot of land then scheduled as open space, gave a certificate of development for residential purposes for the same plot of land after it had been sold to the Rover Company Ltd.
§ Sir K. JosephThe land was not allocated as open space; and I am informed that planning permission was not refused to Mrs. Clarke and Mr. Raven who had not sought it. The land had, however, been "white land"; but after Rovers bought it the Council laid certain requirements on them in connection with their development of a nearby estate which made it reasonable to contemplate allowing housing on some of this land too.