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hold a local enquiry to deal with all objections which might be 

 raised. 



6. That an approved and final scheme setting forth in detail 

 the changes proposed, scheduling any land required to carry 

 out the scheme, should then be submitted to the Board. It 

 was also suggested that in all cases the details should receive the 

 approval of the Agricultural Committee. 



7. That the responsibility for carrying out the scheme should 

 then rest with the County Agricultural Committee. 



8. The subsequent responsibility for its administration should 

 lie with the Parish Council, subject only to the general super- 

 vision of the Agricultural Committee ; or alternatively 



9. That a public Utility Society should be entrusted with the 

 duty of carrying the scheme into effect. 



Sir Douglas Newton observed that as a rural dweller he 

 believed the principles of these proposals to be entirely 

 sound, though he regarded the machinery as unsatisfactory, 

 and he made a number of suggestions for a better procedure. 

 He concluded as follows : 



What then are the provisions which are to be regarded as 

 being essential for the amenities of every rural parish ? It is 

 a difficult matter to summarise them, but they should, I think, 

 include 



(a) Cottage Gardens. The provision of a number of sanitary 

 and suitable cottages with gardens attached, adequate to meet 

 the requirements of the parish. 



It is frequently found that gardens have not been provided, 

 even in cases where this could, with but little disturbance or 

 difficulty, be done. 



A case recently came to my knowledge of some cottages 

 which were many years ago dumped down on the waste of a 

 manor, an unsuitable and unsatisfactory site for them ; but 

 there they were, and there, owing to the sad shortage of housing 

 in the locality, people had to live. The sites were so cramped 

 that the cottages had no gardens, but there was plenty of grass 

 land in the occupation of a neighbouring farmer, only separated 

 from the cottages by an open ditch. The cottagers could not, 

 however, get possession of this land, and they hardly dared to 

 ask for it, as they were largely dependent upon the good-will 

 of the farmer and his friends for their daily employment. 



It was only after the open ditch, the only available repository 

 for their refuse, had long become a public nuisance, that land 

 could be obtained for the provision of the much-needed gardens. 



