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Pendennis THE OBSERVER, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14; 1962 SHECYCLE-MEN'S WEAPON The strange affair of the Third Schedule 14 Y7 Ml I I 1 1 rwVT II II I steed a. Moul ton. "after -its The new Moulton cycle. 7 suspension -lorine; wjuetis; in the trade that invention will re- educate in the. delights.

of 5 cycling for as danger 1 of becoming extinct Al-'ready' the industry is one of the Utmost depressed things in' Britain. It tells them what to do after dark night falls in London tht city swings into a flashing neon sighs spell out The Astor Stork Room The Eve Winston's The But one British car firm, the General Motor Company, has1, decided it's too much of a strair. organising theatres and 16 or more' overseas guests: flninn hlMinMO AC TuM.l j(Eive- yeara ago 12 cyvuaus vu tine lyaus uvw there nine, as against'six mil- -Klion; motorists,) Will -Kehnedv Sign company hasn't asked anybody export trade is-threat- vear- a quarter of- a-mil HonchildrenV bicycles to America jSeyetysyear; with special' curved frames. But'PRESi- sbeNT "Kennedy has a Bill sitting desk that will put a 50 per V-cent tariff these imported bi-AV-cycles unless the protests per-' suade 'hininotito sign it Midlands bicycle firms underdeveloped TN the summer of 1880 Lon-dcHiers saw an entirely new sort of building rise above the delicate foliage of St James's Park, and invade the privacy of Buckingham Palace. A lumpish, J2-storey block of flats, called Queen Anne's Mansions, it outraged everyone who valued London's traditional skyline of spires and terraces.

Queen Victoria was aghast. A few years later when the London Building Acts clamped down on high building, fixing 100 feet as the ceilurg, everyone said it was because of Queen Anne's Mansions. Now this monstrosity, whose dingy brickwork houses Admiralty Civil Servants about to move to Earl's Court, is coming up for redevelopment. And once again it may force the Government lo tighten up London's safeguards against the property speculators. Harold Samuel's property firm.

Land Securities Investment, which leases the place to the Government, has put out feelers to the L.C.C. The L.C.C. has appealed for help to the Government. For as the law is interpreted at the moment the mccessor to Queen Anne's Mansions can be even more lumpish. Obscure footnote How could a developer get away with this in the teeth of our modern planning laws With the aid of something called the Third Schedule.

For 15 years everyone has believed that this obscure footnote to the 1947 Planning Acts gives a developer the right to bump up the density of a building by 10 per cent. All through the buMding boom of the last few years the L.C.C. has been wringing its hands over this loophole. All this time the speculators have been rubbing theirs. But for the Third Schedule, Esso would never have been allowed its 320-foot tower Victoria Street, put up by Harold Samuel earlier this year.

Because of it speculators such as Jack Cotton and Charles Clore can replace a vast Victorian palace like Whitehall Court with a monster every bit as bulky as Queen Anne's Mansions. But the 10 per cent bonus does more than damage London's skyline. It exacerbates the congestion in Central London. For, by squeezing more floors into the new building and using a modern lay-out, speculators can squeeze in, not 10 per cent, but 40 per cent more office workers. Euphoric days How did this loophole ever get into the Act? It all goes back to those euphoric days after the war when Lord Silkin's team at the Ministry of Town and Country Planning were drawing up their revolutionary laws to control development.

There was virtually no office building at that time. And in order not to clog up the administrative machine with too many minor planning applications such as new bathrooms for old houses they added the Third Schedule. (Even if there had been a building spree there were safeguards in the Act that enabled a local authority to buy out a tiresome developer.) The Conservative Government removed the safeguards but kept the Schedule. Too late the L.C.C. planners realised its terrible power.

And it was only recently, since their fight over Queen Anne's Mansions, that they appealed to the to abolish the Schedule. Bui the irony is that this Third Schedule confers no legal right at all. Lawyers have discovered this in the last few months. But so far the L.C.C. has refused to bring a test case to establish the fact.

Incredible as it may seem, all those monster blocks, those disastrous extra square feet of office space, those thousands of super-flous commuters, need never have been allowed. The developers all these years could have been refused their 10 per cent. GRIFFITHS Queen Anne's Mansions, which can now be rebuilt-anv ahane.1 10 hat-eanlmonar-rw'1 glneering. machine-tool to'-' to out or blare still a A game for egotists A SPOOF method of measuring (other) people's behaviour is launched jn this month's Esquire. Nothing to do with ectomorphs or the shape of the bumps on.

your head, the McLandress Coefficient or McL-C (pronounced Macelsee) represents the longest span of time during which a man's thoughts keep off himself. A two-hour McL-C, a pretty large coefficient, would mean that a chap could think of something else for 120 minutes at a stretch. The measurements can be made through interviews, but more usually it's enough to study a good some extent the electrical ind us- been Frightened French a' Western- id Differences in; national-taste will national Arv--n-rt ino French rivals with all the advan ease tlw shock of competition with CpacWrigSv or i the i-iJnwsflt. patent tages that aze can bring. -food the Candidates' Tournaments, -f u.6w.

looKat i tne i countryside). countryside). The paper warns" ihat Britain's' fears whicKrarefdeamedto.rseJM!f, the entry with aH her unused. produc-? cfiaUeiigethe'reigning uvju vapawi-y irtti uie win- auivvc Inrtnkl. II vc world hjmself Lesue Warner, Secretary of the jClub (Jialf a million members' "at th turn, of the century "and; now 'dnlyj is not too optimistic about a full-scale revival of 'our roads.

wi'LauiG uuiucau UttlUDCC WIICIC LIIC XliUiUJ HJam.ll productive capacity, though; Anxious to Keep nnai: as it ifj'lhe cau iVfstrength.lhen.Jliavihg packed it. IN the great Common Market debate the tendency has' been to concentrate on British fears and to suggest what British producers have to fear from Continental competition. The French business weekly Entreprise has now helped to restore the balance with an investigation into La Menace anglaise." It presents a very different picture from the usual one of a thriving European community and an ailing Britain in desperate need of a shot in the arm; Entreprise explains with some misgivings that of the 100 biggest companies in the world outside the United States, 27 are British. In almost every sector of industry, the British giants tower over their nearest vearn.Aanin'Y'iiorreljivisi.' inauuy iiuvnstoiog, lags Sllgntiy, behind potential consumption and'; thus enables more marginal -firms to stay in business. With in the Community, forecasts a "merciless struggle" with mergers and take-overs, which have been far less common' on -the Continent than jn the United Kingdom.

Except in Stevenage-where cycle paths windwell away from the andtaere. are even cycle unaerpassiKrtfiese never seriously cater He thinks "it's more likely trial whetf -people get fed' up wiii. 3their -cars rand their traffic jams' they'll take to their 'feet wifes-' Fischer there petkiyesport is all. sweet- were "the ness and light 'so leight entrants. Allj-of them" FisCber, the.f.

has- a hot longafterwards; he'beaf them enormous alleeation in Der nil'-- iThi mi.cf r. Entreprise sees a serious danger from Britidv coal, paper and BSiie -s IS Li "This at pleasure as uiv provided a -clue a -clue 'been. "The -i nughts-hay LRussians Agreed to C. play each' rTIHIS is Motor Show week -and: 1iaJi.1"" J-fhB h1Mt animal invasion of nn hitsOondSi. -iixtv.

mi De Gaulle 7i hours to lf lip benght But one can't help think--" ZZ, ing he might" not' After' all. li uitlni WW the Russians are fairlv eoad at chess. withcarl. men. Restaurants and -night'-fclubs will be crowded with Smooth car- manufacturers entertaining; their visitors from QChe show, kicks off, at the aB.M.C lun-cchepn-jshdl-ac5ociety of Motor sample -of peppje's speeches-and The resulis- -can fbe surprising.

-i Theatre people have low ratings in the minute range. From Mort Sahl (four minutes) to Danny Kaye (55). Elizabpth at three minutes, is just about the bottorrejnaSslf; The range is wider among writers, but- the figure is mbrPof ten low than high from Mrs. Roosevelt (two hours) toHootrTLREVOR- Ireland's long runner Manufacturers Rous EAMON DE VALERA, 8b veaR rlH trwlnv line rtntlaetorl Royce is throwing a cocktail party for overseas retailers at the Hyde Park is. a do at Next- weekend at the in tenure of high office every other maiot! political figure' extent Por-' Koperi (two and- DL 'DorchesterOh'ere'll be a Sunbeam own.

KennetoTyhan grates rugarsVPfiJMB Salazar.1 whqmLfhe'once ris dinriera Fiat cocktail.p'arty- eight and Motor-'r-rinapceCompany The-men 30 years since formed' "his first Cabinet, and "of the nine rhem'- 3 rit Of business berscwhoro" he picked then are only' still five "stilly that goes dp "durfag? the, junketing. More and business -'visitors are Dr. Robert the- hours) J5H MTiN'LirrHER Kino, the anti-segregationist-(four like actors, come.oiit on" the low' side. Kennedy has a ThisV-kind ofv'stabilitv or-' staor are regarded '-''asy catches." for the tourist industry. British Tr4vet and Holidays Association produces a maga de-Valera's career.

1959 sperii IF McL-C of29 minutes as-against: Nixon's 3 seconds;" Business Visitors wnicn is specially designed to persuade De Gaolle'st, businessmen to combine pleasure "turned -out to be seven" and. half with "business. When businessmen hours. Butithenit also see; the Shakespeare half miputes. rm DDDDanoDDDaDaaDaaaDODODDaoa o) o) Ml IMJ Presiden De Valera onlv six veVuWt'of-officfciftdw he-has-becomeLa'kind of fatherSfi for thousands voTrislunehj, who LLonce disagreed ii-i-, His is alrrlost and when He, delivers a speech has lo'beread -'Eim to fpUqw.

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