PRESERVING ENGLAND [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin. May
I add a few points to your article on " Preserving England " ? The urgent need for houses could be better met I'S Properly laid-out plans and well-designed dwelling places than by allowing anybody to build just anything anywhere. 'ro take Sussex--compare the much advertised Peacehaven, which looks at a little distance like a series of allotments and chicken runs—with the well-planned and well carried out Northern suburb of Brighton, Monlseombe. Again, why should the approach to every town and nearly i'very village be made hideous by rows of competing petrol Damps Surely these necessary evils need not be an eyesore. 11%3', also, should'some Of the few stretches of beach, not yet built over, be ruined by old L.C.C. trams, railway' carriages
and other eccentric huts ? In many places these exist without any means of drainage, water supply, or facilities foralisposing of refuse, and the result is an offence against man and nature which is intolerable. At the rate things are going, the whole of the Sussex coast will be a shambles within a few years. - am, Sir, &c..
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