Mar 17, 2014
Courtesy of UCL Records
As George Osborne announces plans for a new Garden City in Ebbsfleet, here's another UCL Records gem from The Garden Cities & Town Planning Association in 1941.
F.J Osborn was Secretary to the GCTPA, and was an early champion of the New Towns movement. This letter, addressed to Professor Patrick Abercrombie from the Department of Planning at UCL, regards the creation of a school of planning in Welwyn Garden City.
What could Abercrombie have said about Eric Gill to prompt such vitriol from Osborn? Also interesting to note is the fact that Raymond Unwin is still listed as Vice-President at the top of the page despite having died 6 months earlier. Time to print some new letterheads, perhaps.