BRITISH HOUSING
PARTIAL CHANGE OF POLICY Rec. 11.20 a.m, RUGBY, Feb. 23
The Minister of Works, Mr. Duncan Sandys, in a statement in the House of Commons on housing, announced a partial change of policy from temporary to permanent house building, and said that America would send 30,000 temporary houses to Britain this year. Much of the factory , capacity and labour upon which the original plans were based could not yet be released from munitions production, he said, and choice of design was restricted by shortages of material. The Government had decided, in the interests of general economy and general planning, to switch over as soon as practicable to the construction of permanent dwellings on normal sites. Until the permanent programme could be got under way the Government would press forward with the manufacture of temporary bungalows to the fullest possible extent.—B.O.W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 47, 24 February 1945, Page 8
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