Whitehall Area (Redevelopment)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Public Building and Works – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 22 June 1964.

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Photo of Mr Gilbert Longden Mr Gilbert Longden , South West Hertfordshire 12:00, 22 June 1964

While thanking my right hon. Friend for that reply, may I ask him is he would not agree that up to now the modernisation of London has been undertaken with an almost complete lack of imagination and sense of fitness on the part of our planning authorities; and will he give an assurance that not only Parliament but the public, before a single brick is moved in the Whitehall area, will have a chance to pronounce, because is it not the case that up to now the public seem to have woken up only six months or so after each fresh outrage has been perpetrated upon our once lovely City?