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Transferable Lessons from the New Towns
| Published | 12 July 2006 |
|---|---|
| Type(s) | Research and statistics |
| Site | Housing |
| Product code | 06HC03919 |
| Price | Free |
Summary
This report presents the main findings from an extensive review of the literature dealing with the English New Towns (NT) programme.
The purpose of the research was to identify lessons from the NT programme that might be transferable to the Growth Areas initiative. The main assumption is that the lessons derived from the literature on the New Towns can be used as a starting point for both policy and practice for the Growth Areas (See Map 2 Growth Areas of the publication). Although these are clearly very different initiatives, they both involve development of essentially new settlements on a very large scale. Indeed, the Growth Areas will be the largest programme of state Government sponsored development since the New Towns.
The research identified over 2000 articles, books, and other published sources specifically referring to the New Towns. From this around 200 sources have been reviewed to see what answers they might provide to a series of questions supplied by the ODPM (now Communities and Local Government) under eight main themes:
- Delivery
- Finance
- Creating Communities
- Governance
- Economic Achievement and Competitiveness
- Physical Environment and Design
- Long-term Sustainability
- End user experience
One key finding from this extensive literature review has been that there is, in fact, very little research-based material relating to the New Towns programme as a whole, which, arguably, is both objective and useful. There are some notable exceptions; but the team were surprised by this lack of quality in the literature. This is undoubtedly due to the fact that the NTs programme has never been reviewed systematically.
Moreover, none of the literature, particularly the research articles, was written to address questions of transferability to a new context - although some sources do explicitly draw out lessons for the future. Recognising this, we have treated our sources in their own terms whilst attempting to extrapolate from them conclusions that night reasonably apply to the new context of the Growth Areas.
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