Abstract

The legislative preparatory work of the new Ministry of Town and Country Planning is reviewed in this chapter. An extensive description of the Town Planning (Interim Development) Act, 1943Town and Country Planning (Interim Development) Act, 1943 and the Town and Country Planning Act, 1944, as well as the accompanying discussions and negotiations between Churchill and the Labour leaders are presented. The wartime environment function is manifest in two ways: first, it helped to bring to the fore the need for reorganisation of the planning system, and secondly, it had to preserve the atmosphere of unity in the Coalition Cabinet.

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