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New towns in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia. The new towns in the United Kingdom were planned under the powers of the New Towns Act 1946 (9 & 10 Geo. 6. c. 68) and later acts to relocate people from poor or bombed-out housing following the Second World War.
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Towards the end of the Second World War, attention was directed to the post-war reconstruction of Britain's towns and communities. The possibility of building new towns had been accepted in 1945 by a government committee chaired by Lord Reith, the founder of the BBC. The committee included a number of leading figures in the Town and Country Plannin...
The 1946 New Towns Act established an ambitious programme for building new towns. It gave the government power to designate areas of land for new town development. A series of ‘development corporations' set up under the Act were each responsible for one of the projected towns. Stevenage, in Hertfordshire, was the first new town created under the Ac...
Parliament saw it as essential to restrict the growth of large cities. The Town and Country Planning Act of 1947 laid down procedures to control urban sprawl into the countryside. All planning was to be subject to planning permission by local councils. Most importantly, every area of the country was to have a ‘development plan' showing how each are...
The New Towns programme, with its three phases between 1946 and 1970, was the most ambitious town building programme ever undertaken in the United Kingdom. Alongside legislation in Scotland and Northern Ireland, the New Towns Act 1946 led to the delivery of 32 New Towns across the UK.
During the twentieth century, Britain was a leading pioneer of planned new communities, and at the forefront of the international dissemination of garden city and new town planning. Yet valuable lessons from British town planning are being ignored by current small-scale ‘garden villages’ and eco-towns in the United Kingdom.
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The New Town is a central area of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. It was built in stages between 1767 and around 1850, and retains much of its original neo-classical and Georgian period architecture.
2016 marked the 70th anniversary of the 1946 New Towns Act, and of the designation of the first New Town at Stevenage.
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Feb 9, 2017 · Built in the mid-to-late 18th Century in response to overcrowding in what is now known as the Old Town, Edinburgh’s New Town has flourished as a true marvel of urban planning and elegant Neo-Classical architecture. We list the must-sees here, from Princes Street to Castle Terrace.
