Practical Town Planning

Progress, Volume XI, Issue 7, 1 March 1916, Page 572

Practical Town Planning

The South Australian Parliament is considering a Town Planning Bill this session, and the Government have purchased a 300-acre block of land, so that a scheme for the formation of a model settlement may be carried out as an example to those concerned. The area secured is about four miles from Adelaide, and can be served by an extension of the existing railway. It is at present being used by the Commonwealth Defence Department.

The Attorney-General (the Hon. J. H. Vaughan), who is also Minister for Pleasure Resorts, states that careful consideration will be given to the basis of allotment, and the Government will endeavour to adopt the system of tenants’ co-partnership, which has proved so successful in England. In the past it has been the practice to throw a reserve into the centre of a community, and say that a town has been planned. Thus, only those whose residences abut on the reserve enjoy its benefits. That will not be done in the case of the new model. Areas will be set apart in different localities, so that the number who will derive pleasure from having their homes on the borders of reserves will be greatly increased.