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at the public cost, may not be isolated or made
difficult of access, at the caprice of an owner whose
strip of land chances to intersect a street following
the direct avenue of approach of a large neighbouring
community.
School sites may be selected before the areas for
which they are required become covered with houses
and the few remaining vacant plots, which are
available, have acquired a value which makes the
provision of schools a much costlier and more difficult
matter than need be.
APPLICATION TO WILLESDEN.
From considerations such as these it will be
appreciated what local authorities have gained by
their endowment with the powers embraced in Sect.
54 to 67 of Pt. II. of the Housing and Town
Planning Act. The preparation of such a plan as
the Council are, subject to the consent of the Local
Government Board, empowered to make under Sect.
54 of the Act, will necessarily be a prolonged and
onerous task, in which the technical knowledge and