TOWN-PLANNING.
A “GARDEN CITY” SCHEME. NEW SOUTH WALES PROPOSAL. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] (Received 9.25 a.m.) Sydney, August 28. .Mr Irvine’s report mentions that many families are unable to pay tinincreased rents, and are driven t squat in bush lints improvised out oi old tins, packing cases, and sacking. He recommends a general bousing ml town-planning act c:i the lines of the English Act, with provision for rural villages' for c»ity workers, the State to retain general control of the administration. Further recommendations include the demolition and treatment of shun areas, insistence on a high standard of sanitation and lighting, the repair of congested areas, rehousing of the displaced population, provision for parks and play grounds, loans, to encourage ■ co-partnership building in housing schemes, encouragement of decentralisation, and the formation of new centres on “Garden City” lines, with orgnisation of household services on a common basis.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 97, 28 August 1913, Page 5
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