GARDEN SUBURB PLAN

Evening Star, Issue 16911, 7 December 1918, Page 4

GARDEN SUBURB PLAN

There Is on view in tho window of Simon’s chop, Princes street, a plan which shows tho modem idea of laying out a garden suburb. In this scheme the streets are planned on park liqes, and designed to diseouaiafio through traffic. The residential blocks have an inner area to serve as a playing field in common for tho children living in that particular block. Tho idea of having children's playing areas is a good one, as it serves to keep them off the streets. There is a small park with its paddling pool, swings, etc., along with public recreation grounds. There are no dark corners to harbor tilth and breed disoato. This plan clearly shows that housing in its broader into porotaHon meaiis more than the way 7 the Ikmso b built, its number of rooms, the amount of window-opaoc pea 7 square foot of floor or per cubit foot of room. Proper housing dearly means the entire environment of the occupant and tho occupant’s family. Men ami women are to a great extort tho product of their environment, cud especially tho environment of their childhood. Many men and women live in such a confined area and move in such nits that housing is the chief determining fac tor in thoir lives. The development plan on view was prepared by Mr Edward Anscombe for Wanganui, and we understand he htv*? -a rsir-ilLir scheme mi-der way for another North Island town.