City Replanning

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 66, 19 March 1936, Page 9

City Replanning

PROPOSALS IN ENGLAND SYDNEY, March 7. A Sydney architect, Mr. Hedley N. Carr, who returned recently after practising his profession abroad for six years, said that in tho next 10 years it was likely that at least a quarter of each of the large English cities Would be completely replanned. Large blocks of modern flats would probably predominate in all tho schemes. Mr. Carr stated that tho London County Council would probably become tho owner of whole suburbs, which would be cleared aud not merely rebuilt, but also completely replanned. In the replanning schemes provision would be made for parks and children’s playgrounds, and individual blocks of flats would each be set in areas of their own. London would probably have flat buildings of 10 to 13 storeys in the replanned areas. To an architect, said Mr. Carr, the way in which building research was being carried out in England was particularly interesting. 'With the assistance of the Government, a building had been erected, inside of which a house of any description could be built. Inside the larger building any climatic condition could be artificially created at will and its effect on the small-! er structure observed. This ingenious arrangement of a building within a building was boing used to make standardised tests of household equipment, such as mechanical ventilation, heating and cooling appliances, and insulating materials. . Mr. Carr added that Beverley Hills, near Hollywood, provided the -finest collection of residential architecture in the world. Every residence had been Built with consideration of tho effect on neighbouring structures and the settings were suited to the houses.