From the archives: Planning the postwar New Towns, 1945-46

By Tom Lowe2024-02-16T07:00:00

The Builder reports on the development of a vast new wave of housing to replace the homes destroyed by wartime bombing

The New Towns were a series of planned settlements across England built in the immediate post-Second World War years. Located primarily in a ring around London beyond the green belt, they aimed to address a severe housing shortage caused partly by the destruction of homes in the capital by wartime bombing.

It was also a response to the more than four million soldiers who returned at the end of the war, an influx which created one of the biggest civilian challenges facing the post-war Labour government.

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