§ 48. Mr. Godberasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government if he will now reconsider his decision not to hold a public inquiry into the proposed development in the village of Skellingthorpe, details of which have been sent to him; and if he will give due weight to the expression of local feeling in the 123W petition sent to him containing the signatures of almost the whole of the adult population of the village.
§ Mr. CrossmanI have seen the petition; but it would not be right for me to intervene now and reopen by way of public inquiry a decision properly arrived at locally, on what is essentially a local issue.