HC Deb 07 February 1967 vol 740 cc263-4W
39. Mr. John Hall

asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government why, in view of the need to preserve good agricultural land, he agreed to the development of the new Milton Keynes town at such a low density.

Mr. Mellish

As my right hon. Friend explained in Answer to a Question from the hon. and learned Member for Buckinghamshire, South (Mr. Ronald Bell) on 31st January the overall density of the new town will be 11.4 persons per acre. This he considers reasonable in view of the need to incorporate the existing towns into the new development in a manner which preserves their sense of local community and the need to avoid a centralised urban structure recreating the problems of existing towns.—[Vol. 740, c. 57.]