Housing Land

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Environment – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 5 December 1973.

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Photo of Mr Geoffrey Rippon Mr Geoffrey Rippon , Hexham 12:00, 5 December 1973

I do not dissent from my hon. Friend's general proposition about the need to make land available. The chairman of the Labour Government's Land Commission said that the only way to bring down the price of building land was to make more land available for building. That is true. It may be that some local authorities are not responding as well as we might wish. We will continue to bring some pressure upon them. As I have said, I hope that they will make further efforts.