Abstract
The submitted plans during the 1940s prepared by three official organizations: the London County Council (LCC) plan , the Greater London (GL) plan and County of London Development (CLD) plan, are examined in this chapter. The great difference between the CLD plan and the previous official ones was that it was operational and not merely advisory. Therefore, after many years of preparation, negotiations and patient investigation, there was now available for the County of London a plan for its future activities, based on a carefully considered financial budget.
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Notes
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FR Hiorns was for many years a senior member of the architectural staff of the LCC and also a member of Lord Reith’s Consultative Panel, Ministry of Works and Buildings (Anonymous 1941, p. 18)
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As the LCC plan supports (Forshaw and Abercrombie 1943, p. 49), the objectives in planning the road system were: first, the improvement of traffic flow; secondly, the segregation of fast long-distance traffic from traffic of a purely local nature; thirdly, a reduction in the number of accidents; and lastly, the maintenance of existing communities and the removal of through traffic from them.
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The Technical Committee had the following composition: Harry Stewart (Ministry of Works and Planning), Major HE Adlington (Ministry of War Transport), JH Forshaw and H Westwood (LCC), FJ Forty (City of London), RH Buckley (Essex County Council), Lt Col AE Prescott (Hertfordshire County Council), FW Greig (Kent County Council), AG Harfield (Middlesex County Council), WP Robinson (Surrey County Council), AH Prince (Buckinghamshire County Council), CE Boast (Croydon County Borough Council), AT Bridgwater (East Ham County Borough Council), EP Pye (West Ham County Borough Council), H Cliffe (Non-County Borough Councils), EE Ryder (Urban District Councils) and AJ Wilshire (Rural District Councils) (PRO file HLG 85/34).
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Chairman of the Standing Conference on London Regional Planning had been appointed EG Culpin (PRO file HLG 85/34).
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Marmaras, E.V. (2015). The Official Plans for London. In: Planning London for the Post-War Era 1945-1960. Springer Geography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07647-8_11
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