§ Mr. Merlyn Reesasked the Minister of Transport whether he will invite the City of Leeds to become a guinea pig area in terms of the Buchanan Report and outside the normal grant structure, as a practical example of urban renewal to meet the needs of the motor age.
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§ Mr. MarplesNo. This proposal does not take sufficient account of the necessary time-scale of urban renewal, or of the need for private as well as public investment in redevelopment. Practical examples of planning on Buchanan lines will begin to appear sooner than could be achieved by trying to force through a programme of redevelopment in one or more selected places.