GARDEN SUBURBS OF TO-DAY—SOME OF THE LATEST EXAMPLES OF ECONOMICAL TOWN PLANNING AND ITS ALTERNATIVE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVII, Issue 1, 3 January 1912, Page 31

GARDEN SUBURBS OF TO-DAY—SOME OF THE LATEST EXAMPLES OF ECONOMICAL TOWN PLANNING AND ITS ALTERNATIVE.

The most striking aspect about modern suburbs laid out on town planning lines is the great economic advantage they possess over suburbs developed on the present lines in New Zealand. It is the saving effected in the cost of development and building that brings the rents within the means of most people and at the same time the rise in the land value benefits the residents instead of being netted by the suburban speculator. Our photographs show some of the latest examples of the town planning movement from Britain to-day. <li A street in Ealing Garden suburb, on the northwwt of London, founded in I‘.w»l with nine houses. It has now nearly 7«*» houses, occupying €<»£ acres, and there lias been spent over on same. (2) Winscombe Crescent, a tree lined roadway in Ealing Garden suburb, <3i and i.’»i The alternative to progressive housing. Model tenements in Liverpool built on 5 acres of city property originally occupied by foul slums. The land and houses cost LTrtUMm. ill A pretty type of residence in Port Sunlight letting at 8/ per week. Hh Modern homes in the garden suburb of Romford in Essex one of the bit.*t erea tions of tin* town planning movement. i 7» Liverpool garden suburb not yet two years old. These houses arc semi detached ami let nt II to 11 d per week irate* and taxe% imludedi. Charming homes at Gldea Hall in Essex built last year under town planning. Note how the trees and vegetation have been saved. i'.h A group of three houses in the Meadvale road, Ealing garden suburb the pioneer Company I’artnershiiv Housing Society in Britain. See article, page 33.