On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 23:28:58 +0000, Michael Bell
wrote:


Certainly very few wanted it. But if living space for 40 Million people has
to be created, it would be a huge expansion of existing towns and the
government would have to make decisions where they should live. Humberside
really is a very empty area. But the need never arose!

Humberside /was/ ~. It was done away with in the 1990s. The area still
is pretty empty, of course.

I don't see how more people could live in the area when it was known
as Humberside than could live in the same places when they were, and
now they are again, recognised as parts of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.
If for some reason the government had wanted to put millions of people
into the area it wouldn't have needed to change the local government
to do it, instead it would have needed to get lots of houses built for
those people to live in. Maybe they could have devised a plan to build
a whole new town somewhere, but it wouldn't have made someone in
Bridlington feel closer to Immingham than to Yorkshire, even if the
same council emptied the dustbins at the other side of the Humber
Bridge.

"...can you imagine Len Hutton walking out to bat for Humberside?",
John Major, 1992


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Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK