Country Life
COUNTRY COTTAGES.
We may expect with some confidence to see real practical results from this week's Roads and Transport Congress, organized by the energetic secretary of the County Councils Association. It should permanently influence for good the character of the English countryside and the welfare of its inhabitants. All the score and more of societies affiliated to the Council for the Preservation of Rural England and not least the voluntary panels of architects, now well dis- tributed over the country, took an active interest : it is a congress of specialists. Now two very valuable Acts have recently been passed which enable anyone, even if little capital is immediately available, to recondition his cottages. Acts of Parliament are of little service if they are not adver- tised like other goods ; and it is not too much to say that half the people who ought to be concerned with the question know nothing whatever about the Rural Housing Act of 1931. If Sir Arthur Robinson, Secretary of the Ministry of Health, chairman of the most important meeting of the Congress, can make landowners and indeed local bodies realize what oppor- tunities the Act offers, the happiness of rural dwellers would be much enhanced at the same time that scores of cottages of great architectural beauty would be preserved.
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