I believe that a beautiful public building can be more beautiful and useful than even the best designed block of flats or business premises.
Let us take the case of the owner of a whole block of flats—500 of them.
Or there may be a drunken caretaker of a block of flats.
But, even if we take the block of flats, is that a sound answer?
There seems to be a reluctance to accept premises from the local housing department which are on the ground floor of a block of flats.
In the one case where the tenant in that block of flats went to the rent officer, the rent was increased to £400 a year.
I deeply regret that this block of flats should remain out of commission at a time of acute housing shortage.
It does not help to put a couple of petrol pumps and a small garage underneath a block of flats.
