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The New Towns Act 1946 (9 & 10 Geo. 6. c. 68) enabled the creation of New Town Development Corporations, whose responsibilities included the management, design and development of New Towns. [16] Stevenage was the first New Town to be designated in 1946.
The New Towns Act 1981 (c. 64) is an "Act to consolidate certain enactments relating to new towns and connected matters, being (except for section 43 of the New Towns Act 1965 and sections 126 and 127 of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 and certain related provisions) enactments which apply only to England and Wales."
This includes all new towns created under the New Towns Act 1946 (9 & 10 Geo. 6. c. c. 68) and successive acts, as well as some communities not designated under this name.
The new towns in the United Kingdom were planned under the powers of the New Towns Act 1946 (9 & 10 Geo. 6. c. 68) and later acts to relocate people from poor or bombed-out housing following the Second World War. Designated new towns were placed under the supervision of a development corporation, and were developed in three waves. Later ...
English: An Act to encourage town development in county districts for the relief of congestion or over-population elsewhere, and for related purposes, and to repeal subsection (5) of section nineteen of the Town and Country Planning Act, 1944, and part of subsection (1) of section five of the New Towns Act, 1946.
The 1946 New Towns Act, implemented in the UK, was the plan to relocate hundreds of thousands of people from congested cities into newly built towns. [33] Overspill estates and “suburban expansion” were the more prominent forms of relocation at the time compared to these new towns. [ 33 ]
Moreover, the Greater London Plan of 1944 went further by suggesting that over one million people would need to be displaced into a mixture of satellite suburbs, existing rural towns, and new towns. [58] The New Towns Act 1946 (9 & 10 Geo. 6. c. 68) resulted in many New Towns being constructed in Britain over the following decades. [59] [60]
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