BRITAIN TO BUILD NEW GARDEN CITY FOR FILM CENTRE

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6756, 8 November 1928, Page 4

BRITAIN TO BUILD NEW GARDEN CITY FOR FILM CENTRE

Site of 035 Acres Has Been Acquired, and Work Is Already . Started • ' ' : ' LONDON.’ A new garden city is to bo constructed at Elstree, which will correspond somewhat to America’s Hollywood—to meet the needs of workers in the film trade." A site of 635 acres has been acquired between Shonley Road and the" New Barnet ■ Arterial Road and work on it is starting at once.

The agents will be the Housing Corporation of Great. Britain, who are to act as managing agents to the estates and supervise ,tho operations. , All the houses'will be fitted with labour-saving devices, and tie design they are buxit on will secure a maximum of. sunshine. There will bo electric light and power' an,d central heating supplied .from a I central, plant; and only smokeless fuel will be used in, the open grates. There will also be a residential Country, club in, the :cen.tre -of the estate, with swimming, pop!;; lawn tennis, and .'squash racket. courts, ,a ballroom, a c’eatral .coihmunity garage and accommodation 1 for chauffeurs, •. A cinema ' will • also bd built in. which films produced -at be . shown before >■ they - arc ’released' fbf general exhibition.' ! 'There taro’ three hear' the estate, these of British .international pictures, "Ltd.,’ the Blattnhf Picture Corporation,’ and Whitehall Films. : . ' When the new garden city is completed there will be 3000 houses. This will do away with the great difficulty fqlt by those at • present working in the studios who often have to come from a considerable distance, to begin their work early in the morning, and cannot leave it till late at night.