The County of London Plan was prepared for the London County Council by J. H. Forshaw and Patrick Abercrombie in 1943. London County Council emblem is still seen today on buildings, especially housing, from that era London County Council (LCC) was the principal local government body for the County of London from 1889 until 1965, when it was replaced by the Greater London Council. ... Categories: People stubs | 1879 births | 1957 deaths | British architects ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) is a common year starting on Friday. ...
Its main purpose was to point out the main directions of development and reconstruction of London, which in the past decades had faced big changes and irregular growth. For other uses, see London (disambiguation) and Defining London (below). ...
It particularly focused on five defects of London, to which the plan proposed remedies. The defects were:
traffic congestion
depressed housing
inadequacy and maldistribution of open spaces
jumble of houses and industries
sprawl of London and consequent suburbanisation of surrounding country towns
Illustration of the backyards of a surburban neighbourhood Suburbs are inhabited districts located either on the outer rim of a city or outside the official limits of a city (the term varies from country to country), or the outer elements of a conurbation. ...
The 1944 Plan was based on assumptions that the population of Greater London would reduce slightly and would be distributed (in an orderly manner) away from the crowded central/inner areas to the suburbs and beyond.
The structure of London was envisaged as four concentric rings: the Inner (old urban core) ring the Suburban ring, the Green belt Ring and the Outer Country Ring which accommodate population and industry displaced out from inner London in expansions of existing settlements and the creation of new satellite developments.
Plan 3 and Plan 10) included an outer Orbital and Plan 1, which had the least length of motorways in it, comprised just the Orbital plus those sections of radial motorways which were built or committed in addition to the base road system.
He created the County of LondonPlan (1943) and the Greater London Regional Plan (1944) which are commonly referred to as the Abercrombie Plan.
From the Abercrombie Planplan came the New Towns movement which included the building of Harlow and Crawley and the largest 'out-county' estate, Harold Hill in north-east London.
Forshaw and Patrick Abercrombie, County of LondonPlan, Macmillan and Co. 1943.
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