‘Sociological desert’
6V.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON. The greatest emphasis in the National Party’s environmental policy would be on the improvement of the urban environment, said the party’s spokesman on the environment, Mr V. S. Young. “New Zealand has created too great a sociological desert in the way it has allowed its cities to expand ever outwards, not giving enough attention to the problems of urban living,” he told the Auckland University Students’ Association. A National government would involve more interested groups in the administration of areas of land for public use, whether they were small neighbourhood reserves, city parks, or new national recreational areas. “We will protect our countryside and coastline, without removing large areas of land from private to public ownership,” Mr Young said. “We will examine the geographic spread of the population, and encourage decentralisation and the development of growth in the regions.”
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33933, 28 August 1975, Page 7
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