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 assure the hon. Member that this expression is not an invention of mine. For perhaps the only time during this Bill I was quoting an official brief; a thing I rarely do. The expression "near ripe" appears in that brief which, if the hon. Member likes, I will give to him.