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The Garden City Movement, which was founded by Ebenezer Howard in 1898 and advocated for greenbelts and low-density communities, influenced colonial planning in British colonies in Africa. [12] The 1947 Town and Country Planning Act that passed in the United Kingdom and served as the modern foundation for town planning there eventually made its ...
The Town and Country Planning Act 1947 (10 & 11 Geo. 6.c. 51) was an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom passed by the Labour government led by Clement Attlee.It came into effect on 1 July 1948, [1] and along with the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1947 (10 & 11 Geo. 6.
In 1948 he again succeeded Abercrombie as Professor of Town Planning at University College, London. He held this post until he retired in 1970. [4] Holford was knighted in 1953 [5] and on 29 January 1965 he was made a life peer as Baron Holford, of Kemp Town in the County of Sussex [6] by the Wilson Government, the first town planner to be made ...
South African Tourist Corporation Act, 1947: 55: Precious and Base Metals Amendment Act, 1947: 56: Appropriation Act, 1947: 1948. Act no. Short title 1:
An Act to make fresh provision for planning the development and use of land, for the grant of permission to develop land and for other powers of control over the use of land; to confer on public authorities additional powers in respect of the acquisition and development of land for planning and other purposes, and to amend the law relating to ...
An Act to bring certain works for making good war damage within the definition of development in the Town and Country Planning Act, 1947, and the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act, 1947, and within the Third Schedule to each of those Acts; and to extend the period limited by section twenty-three of the first-mentioned Act for serving ...
Planning law or town and country planning is the system by which the British government seeks to maintain a balance between economic development and environmental quality in England. The primary legislation for this field of law is provided by the Town and Country Planning Act 1947 and the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.
68) was passed which, coupled with the Town and Country Planning Act 1947, created a "machinery for positive town construction". [12] These Acts resulted in a total of 28 New Towns being constructed in Britain over the following half-century.