A GARDEN VILLAGE
AMBITIOUS MILLION'POUND SCHEME. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESrONDEKT.) ' LONDON, 11th March. It is announced that Giiildford Town Council has unanimously decided to invest £20,000-in a -co-partnership- scheme for the creation of b garden village on. the Fnrnhr.in side of the town. An estate of 646 acres ljns been purchased from the Earl of Onsiow ?t an average price 0f.£58 per acre, and 200 acres are to he devoted to houses at the rate of five to the acre. The Ministry of Health has approved the scheme, subject to 200 houses at least bein<; erected within the next eighteen mouths. It is intended to includo the site ultimately in the Borough of Gnildford, which will be thus increased by a square mile. The tofcn.l cost w estimated at £1,000,000. Building is to bs begun in May.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 123, 25 May 1920, Page 2
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137A GARDEN VILLAGE Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 123, 25 May 1920, Page 2
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