Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Housing (Scotland) – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 4 Chwefror 1947.
I will read the relevant part of that answer again:
We could not get into a number of sites because they were under tillage, and it takes some time to service and slab a site.
In the City of Edinburgh, almost 2,000 houses were held up because of tillage.