Part of Orders of the Day — Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Bill – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 5 Awst 1947.
I think it is as well that the House should remind itself of the purpose of Clause 77. Although the Joint Under-Secretary referred to the Clause, it was left rather to the imaginations and the long memories of hon. Members, who parted with this Clause many weeks ago now. The purpose of Clause 77 is to deal with what the Government describe not as "dead ripe land"—a phrase used just now by the Joint Under-Secretary—but as "Land ripe for development before the appointed day." The phrase "dead ripe land" is an invention of the Joint Under-Secretary.