Stevenage - New Towns Act Flashcards
The Abercrombie Plan for London in 1944 proposed how many new towns within 50 miles of London?
8
How many people were these towns supposed to house?
500,000 (mainly people from inner London originally)
Similar recommendations were made for which two major UK cities?
Manchester and Birmingham
Why did the Attlee Government set up the New Towns Commission?
to repair and rebuild after WW 2
New Town Development Corporations were responsible for what?
management, design and development
Public Corporations were financed by what?
treasury loans
The boards were appointed by the Central Government, giving them what powers?
planning and compulsory purchase powers
Their first task was to draw up developments concerning what 4 areas?
offices
industrial development
transport
open spaces
Stevenage was part of the…
‘first generation’ of New Towns
Stevenage and how many other were part of the ‘first generation’?
10
They aimed to accommodate the over spill population from which two places?
London and Glasgow
