Reconstruction planning and the small town in early post‐war Britain

Larkham, Peter J. and Pendlebury, John (2008) Reconstruction planning and the small town in early post‐war Britain. Planning Perspectives, 23 (3). pp. 291-321. ISSN 0266-5433

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Abstract

The majority of studies of British post-war reconstruction planning have focused on the better-known plans for larger towns and cities, yet many much smaller places were also represented in the tremendous outpouring of plans in the period c.1951–2. This paper discusses the context of the smaller town replanning, using four very different unbombed towns and plans as exemplars (Bewdley, Durham, Todmorden and Warwick). Uninformative and incomplete records still preclude explicit discussion of why consultants were chosen in each of these cases and, indeed, small towns seem unusually prone to engage expensive consultants. Key common themes in the plans included road provision and housing conditions; indeed, the concerns of these small-town plans are little different from those of larger, and badlybombed, places – perhaps because consultants were used. However, the removal of planning powers from all of these authorities under the 1947 Act meant that implementation of expensive plans was delayed and substantially amended: perhaps the bandwagon of replanning was not worth the expense?

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Submitted to REF 2014, UoA 16, Peter Larkham
Identification Number:	10.1080/02665430802102807
Dates:	Date Event 2008 UNSPECIFIED
Subjects:	CAH13 - architecture, building and planning > CAH13-01 - architecture, building and planning > CAH13-01-04 - planning (urban, rural and regional)
Divisions:	Faculty of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment > College of Built Environment
Depositing User:	Peter Larkham
Date Deposited:	08 Jun 2016 08:57
Last Modified:	20 Jun 2024 11:47
URI:	https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/266

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