UK New Towns in the early years
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- Опубликовано: 16 апр 2024
- Cwmbran was the first New Town to be designated in Wales and followed proposals made by Lewis Silkin in 1948 for two Welsh New Towns. Cwmbran included existing housing and industry and was partly constrained by existing railway lines and a canal.
Hemel Hempstead is a Mark One New Town designed by Geoffrey Jellicoe in the 1940s with development starting in the 1950s. It is the largest town in the borough and has a population of just over 82,000 (2001 Census). The town is quite compact and is surrounded by Green Belt.
East Kilbride was Scotland's first designated New Town in 1947.Expanded to provide new housing for people moving from nearby Glasgow.
Peterlee was created under the New Towns Act 1946 and it received it's first designation order on the 10th March 1948. Amending orders increasing the size of the designated area were approved on 20th July 1965, 16th December 1969 and 27th June 1978.
On the 25th of March 1947, Harlow was designated as New Town to cope with London's rapidly growing population post
A time of hope....
And now a time of despair 😢
@@magnuswalker7957 Totally agree, it's completely depressing but it makes me glad and grateful I grew up in what I think were the best post war years. It was lovely to watch these new towns being built. I know not everyone will agree but I love post war and brutalist architecture. Unfortunately we don't really have the climate for raw/exposed concrete here in the UK.
Beautiful colourfull buildings and a sense of hope !
Yes a do try to upscale as best i can in 60fps UHD, I want to make the past the best way i know.
Where did it go wrong 😢
weirdly fascinating with this music. i enjoyed it.
I remember being taught about these in the '60's at school here in NZ.They were touted as the way of the future.Sad to think what happened to them.
The new towns looked (sort of) okay when they were first built. But all that concrete got shabby and ugly very quickly. Local authorities didn't maintain the new buildings so they became shabby and dilapidated by the 1980s. But the 1970s law that forced councils to let properties to problem tenants was when things really started going downhill. Up until the 70s, councils were quite choosy about the people they wanted in their properties. Then councils were forced to let properties to alcoholics, ex~offenders, drug addicts and refugees. Soon, these new estates just became dumping grounds for problem tenants, which attracted crime, vandalism and anti~social behaviour
I lived in Stevenage and went to university in Hatfield. Sort of new town double whammy.
Nice.
Another great video Tanya, thanks for posting.
We didn't know any different just like today don't know any different
why isn't Stevenage, Welwyn Garden City, Hatfield or Letchworth on this vid?
I did a video on Stevenage a while ago with East Kilbride, I'm just starting to work now on other New Towns and Welwyn Garden City and Letchworth will be also documented
@@user-Tanya1973 that's great, I grew up in Welwyn and took A levels in Stevenage and the images in this video are very familiar, so many of these new towns were identical in so many ways.
Love them or hate them they were needed at the time and I would suggest a programme of building on this scale is needed to sort out today's housing crisis. I bet the residents of the current new towns won't want them in their backyards though. 😂
Badly designed as they were planned and built against natural principles rules of architecture and town planning. Full of roundabouts and ring roads. Sacred geometry is ignored.
Social problems appeared just a few years after completion. The 'slums' they were moved from only needed repairs, cleaning up and modernisation. Then the town planners built housing estates on the edges of cities to resemble new town suburbs.
Hideous places. The Stepford Wives of building!
The beginning of post modernism 😢
It was ugly architecture even back then.
I admire the mission statement of modernising extremely unfit and old housing stock but goodness me is it ugly.