HC Deb 30 January 1986 vol 90 c593W
23. Mr. Archer

asked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will make it is his policy to demolish the Divis flats and replace them with low-rise housing, in the light of a report submitted to him by the Town and Country Planning Association.

Mr. Needham

The Divis complex is structually sound. The Housing Executive has put forward proposals for extensive refurbishment starting with the rehabilitation as a pilot exercise of one block which would enable a full evaluation to be made. If the site were cleared, more than half of the residents could not be rehoused there in traditional houses.