Office Development Permits (Metropolitan Region)

HC Deb 29 March 1965 vol 709 cc197-8W

Mr. Freeson

asked the President of the Board of Trade when he will be ready to consider requests for office development in the metropolitan region.

Mr. Jay

The Board of Trade are prepared, from 1st April, to consider requests for office development permits to be issued after the Control of Office and Industrial Development Bill becomes law. Application forms can now be obtained from the London and South Eastern and the Eastern Regional Offices of the Board of Trade, both of which are at Cromwell House, Dean Stanley Street, London, S.W.1.

It will not, of course, be possible to grant permits before the Bill has received the Royal Assent.