In one of the debates on the Town and Country Planning Bill, on 29 January 1947, the then Minister for Town and Country Planning, Lewis Silkin, told the House of Commons that: ' Too often in the past the objections of a noisy minority have been allowed to drown the voices of other people vitally affected. [...] these too must have their say, and when they have had it, the provisional plan may need a good deal of alteration, but it will be all the better for that since it will reflect actual needs, democratically expressed. In the past, plans have been too much the plans of officials and not the plans of individuals, but I hope we are going to stop that.''
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