Ecclesiastical Buildings (Preservation Orders)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Local Government – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 14 July 1964.

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Photo of Mr Tom Driberg Mr Tom Driberg , Barking 12:00, 14 July 1964

Is that not rather a vague Answer? While it may be true that no difficulty is likely to arise because we can assume, for example, that the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's would not be so wicked as to pull down the Deanery and sell the site to a developer, is it not a fact that if they wished to do so, or if something similar were to happen, the right hon. Gentleman would now have no legal way of preventing it?