WINDSOR’S AMENITIES

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 100, 22 January 1936, Page 3

WINDSOR’S AMENITIES

Plea For Preservation Made By Dean

A strong appeal for the preservation of the old characteristics of Windsor was made by the Dean of Windsor, Dr. A. V. Baillie, at the annual meeting of the council for the preservation of rural England. It was, he said, an ex tremely short-sighted policy to let Windsor become an ugly town.

The question of preserving beautiful buildings in a town was quite differen*from that of the development of land outside a town. Windsor was one of the places to which people came as to a beauty spot. The borough should be very carefully preserved and developed to get the greatest amount of beauty out of it. Outside Windsor Castle itself, he add. ed, there was no doubt a tendency for the town to deteriorate in beauty There were still a great many old houses, and a great deal could.be done in preserving them. The principle he would lay down was that Windsor was a place where the beauty of the town was of the greatest importance to all Englishmen. Mrs. Cartaret Carey, the chairman ot the branch, mentioned that during the year two very important matters had received the attention of the branch. The first was the saving of the Windsor Brewery site, adjoining the Castle, from falling into the hands of the speculative builder; and the second was the abandonment of a proposal to erect a block of modern luxury flats on St. Leonard’s Hill.

Mr. G, L. Pepler, chief town-planning inspector to the Ministry of Health, said that one of the greatest problems with which we were faced was to

adapt towns and countryside, to take advantage of new forces, such as the motor, aeroplane, and widely distributed electricity. Unless we coped with these forces on properly planned lines it. would not be a case of taking advantage of them, but rather of being destroyed by them.