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  • Giving advice to the New Towns Commission

    Giving advice to the New Towns Commission

    Nellie Black recalls when she was part of a women's group, who gave the Commission their views on New Town housing.
  • Community spirit and different types of New Town housing

    Community spirit and different types of New Town housing

    Gwen Marshall recalls her thoughts on the development of the Hemel Hempstead New Town.
  • Leonard Vincent about the industrial area of Stevenage

    Leonard Vincent about the industrial area of Stevenage

    The planning of Stevenage was used by the Government as a Guinea Pig to amend the writing of the New Towns Act. Among the issues taken into consideration there was the siting of the industrial area.
  • Leonard Vincent about occupancy rates and census: how to plan the size of Stevenage households

    Leonard Vincent about occupancy rates and census: how to plan the size of Stevenage households

    Occupancy rates are calculated on old data and censuses, but people can't be expected to keep living the same way forever.
  • Gorbing about qualifying as a planner

    Gorbing about qualifying as a planner

    'They had set up a school of regional association of planning and research in London which was attached to London University and they ran a correspondence course so by 47 I was a qualified Associate of the Town Planning Institute.'
  • Raymond Gorbing about setting up a planning office

    Raymond Gorbing about setting up a planning office

    This excerpt is about setting up a planning office in Nottingham, but it will give you an idea about how the planning offices were working in the first years.
  • Architect Raymond Gorbing on housing density in Stevenage

    Architect Raymond Gorbing on housing density in Stevenage

    '...They would say 'look that’s the amount of money you’ve got to build a house' if you like, 'building 600 houses that's the amount of money you’ve got.'...'
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