WILL QUIT BIG CITIES

Grey River Argus, 28 February 1947, Page 7

WILL QUIT BIG CITIES

More than 23,000,000 people —about half the country’s population —will eventually be moved out of overcrowded cities under the new townplanning legislation, reports the London “Daily Herald”. This was stated by Professor W. G. Holford, a townplanning expert at the Housing Congress at Hastings (England). He adde that a solution would have to be found to the problem of land values in the centre of London and other cities. They would lose their populations, which might result in crushing municipal burdens. “We also have in the economic policy pursued by a Socialist Gov(lament some interesting remedies,” said the Professor. One was to ensure that a great deal of Central London now covered with obsolete houses should give way to open spaces, offices, restaurants and public buildings. “London would have to be transformed —or perish.”