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The legislative preparatory work of the new Ministry of Town and Country Planning is reviewed in this chapter. An extensive description of the Town Planning (Interim Development) Act, 1943 and the Town and Country Planning Act, 1944, as well as the accompanying discussions and negotiations between Churchill and the Labour leaders are presented. The wartime environment function is manifest in two ways: first, it helped to bring to the fore the need for reorganisation of the planning system, and secondly, it had to preserve the atmosphere of unity in the Coalition Cabinet.
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The development control process was an administrative expedient born of the inadequacy of the system to meet the demand for new housing. The second feature of the development control system as it emerged in the 1920Â s and the 1930Â s was its discretionary nature, the way in which it left decision-makers considerable latitude in the decisions they took (Booth 1999, p. 278).
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Marmaras, E.V. (2015). Town Planning Legislation Under the Coalition Government. In: Planning London for the Post-War Era 1945-1960. Springer Geography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07647-8_7
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