POST-WAR PLANNING
ABVOCACY IN LORDS.
B.O.W.
RUGBY, Oct. 22.
A submission that machinery for national planning after the war should be settled now was made by Lord Reith, former Minister for Works and Buildings, when the House of Lords debated plans for post-war reconstruction to-day. Lord Reith called attention to the machinery of planning advocated in the Uthwatt and Seott reports and declared that it was quite impossible to wait until all points in those two reports had been studied and analysed and decisions taken thereon. He believed any machinery was better than none. It was impossible to separate social and economic planning from physical planning. Planning in both the social and economic spheres and also the physical sphere required inter-departmental machinery. Planning should not be the prerogative of any one department. Ultimately there should be one nondepartmental Minister of sufficient authority to be able to co-ordinate and reconcile the various departmental projects, and above all get things done. Lord Addison confessed that the long delay in setting up a central planning body for land control was very depressing, because it was evident that at the end of the war immense issues would thrust themseives upon Britain and it was impossible to think that any decisions could be reached unless a body of men long beforehand had given sustained thought to them. Lord Snell, for the Government, said it accepted the principle of planning. The proposals in the Scott and Uthwatt reports were being continuously studied. The Government was not prepared to announce a decision regarding them until their investigations were further advanced. Lord Snell said that the Government accepted the recommendation that the registration of the title to land should be made compulsory over the whole of England and Wales. The Lord Chancellor had appointed a committee to consider the recommendation. It would be presided over by Lord Rushcliffe.
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Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 251, 24 October 1942, Page 5
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310POST-WAR PLANNING Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 251, 24 October 1942, Page 5
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