Timely Topics

Northern Advocate, 30 March 1938, Page 4

Timely Topics

In an address on “Industry As A Factor In Town And Country Planning,” Mr H. J. Manzoni, city sur-

NATIONAL PLANNING.

veyor at Birmingham, said: “National planning is a subject to which very little con-

structure thought has hitherto been given, and without much study and research it is almost impossible to lay down any rules for procedure; but lat the moment, we are lacking the very essentials of such a scheme. There is no one charged with the duty of studying it in a responsible manner, and the whole of our present system of planning by units is directly opposed to it. The subjects that will come under the scope of a committee set up to deal with national planning will include national highways; the (Conservation of the open country; the manner in which urban arC-as shall grow and expand, and the ret lationship between one such district and another. National parks and the preservation of beauty spots will be its concern, and not, as it is now, the concern of private organisations working under extreme difficulties and with no real power. . National lines of communication of ’ all kinds will be its care—railways, water, air, will all benefit by having been planned in relation to the districts .1; they are to serve.” .