A MODEL TOWN
AUSTRALIAN COMPANY'S AMBITIOUS PROJECT
COMPLETE SELF-CONTAINED UNIT
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright
MELBOURNE, August 2. The most ambitious garden city plan yet attempted in Australia will be undertaken shortly by Dunlop, Perdriau Ltd., which proposes to transfer its Port Melbourne works, with 2,200 employees, to a site at Beaumaris, on the hayside 12 miles from the city. The cost of the undertaking is estimated at £1,500,000. It will include a new factory, 1,200 houses, shops, a hospital, theatre, and school. The latest town planning ideas will he adopted in the scheme, which is the result of many months of investigation. The area of land concerned comprises three-quarters of a square mile. The site lends itself to landscape planning. Recreation and sports grounds are a feature, and safe bathing beaches are a natural attraction. The object is to make a model town, a complete and self-contained unit for work, living, and play. Novel housing plans include a proposed community laundry service and reticulation hot water service in insulated pipes from a central heating station. The company will probably be unable to give its employees lower rents than they are at present paying, but the scheme will give them better con ditions at the same rents, with a substantial weekly saving in fares.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ESD19390803.2.105
Bibliographic details
Evening Star, Issue 23335, 3 August 1939, Page 12
Word Count
212A MODEL TOWN Evening Star, Issue 23335, 3 August 1939, Page 12
Using This Item
Allied Press Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons New Zealand BY-NC-SA licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Allied Press Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.