New towns

• Details
• Tagged entities

Properties

SES ID

• 92149

Notation

• 92149

In scheme

• Subject

Broader

• Urban areas

Narrower

• New towns development corporations

Related

• Garden communities
• Healthy new towns programme

Definition

• Three waves of new settlements overseen by development corporations under the New Towns Act 1946, and designated between November 1946 and March 1970.

History note

• Scope note added after discussion at PQ meeting on 26 January 2017.