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Wednesday, November 29, 1972

Mr. Bray also dealt with two criticisms that had been made of the

regulations.

On the first criticism that people would be allowed to build

without conferring to the Buildings Ordinance, he said neither the architectural

profession nor the authorised contractors were able to deal with numbercus

small buildings in outlying areas.

"To attempt to apply the Buildings Ordinance in full to all such

buildings might look nice on paper but would be quite unrealistic in practice.

Controls must be much simpler. ++

The second critic feared that these policies would hamper more

conventional permanent development. "I am afraid it is precisely this sort of

attitude that has prevented us dealing more realistically with small houses

in outlying areas in the past.

"We cannot expect everybody else to hold their breath until full

permanent development reaches then, Many temporary structures have been up for

10 or 20 years. A similar period will elapse before many more will be

incorporated in urban development. It is quite unreasonable to prevent

people living in these areas from building decent small houses in the

mean time," he said,

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