from a London correspondent
After a bitter battle on Hampstead Torough Council, the Tory majority - forced through a £30 million new town project for the development of 57 acros + of railway land bounded by Finchley Road, Lymington Road, Vest End Lane, and ' Broadhurst Gardens, The decision by 26 votes to 15 wes carried, as the <€ Tories prepared the way for the Covent Garden Froperty Company to take over . this valuable land for proparty devolopment, i.~inly in luxury tilding.
The Central Hampstead Tenants!’ and Freeholders' Association have rosi= sted the proposal and it may very well lead to the slicing of the large Tory majority held by Honry Brocke, M.P,. for Hampstead. In a rathor heated debate on the Council, Jack Cooper, tho Borough's Parlianontary candidate, pointed out that property pricos and ronts in the Hampstoad area aro now as much as 15 times higher than six years ago, The reforenco back of the General Furposes Committee's rejoction of Stoke Nowington Dorough Council's letter opposing the ;, ent ict was defeated 27 votes to 16,