DANGER OF VILLADOM
The danger of “villadom” destroying the beauty of England’s clifflands was stressed by Dr Vaughan Cornish, or Camberley, at the meeting of the British Association recently, when making a strong plea for public ownership. England, he said, had 1800 miles of coast, of which approximately 500 miles was cliffland. “Facilities of access to remote places given by the motor car and the increased demand for houses, week-end residences, and camping huts make it probable that, unless the cliff fields are promptly purchased under the provisions of the Town and Country Planning Act, supplemented, if possible, by funds under a scheme for national parks, the amount of open cliffland will soon be greatly diminished Taking 66 feet for the frontage of each building plot, 40.000 houses would completely line the whole 500 miles of the cliffs of England, transforming their wild scenery into villa-, dom.’’ '
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22713, 28 October 1935, Page 4
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