In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong.

John Major

John Major

Became Blocks Britain Built Communities Destroyed Down Fashionable Fifties Housing Opinion Pulled Replaced Sixties Them Tower Whole Wrong

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