In response to the Government’s announcement at the start of 2017 to use garden cities and towns as a way of supporting much-needed housing delivery across 14 key regions in the UK, PBA has launched this new blog series to review the original principles of the garden city movement and discuss how these need to be updated to be relevant to the challenges of tomorrow.
In the first of these blogs, PBA Partner Tim Allen has drawn on his experience of the emerging story at Ebbsfleet, where we have been engaged for over 25 years, as well as our experience on many of the Government named garden settlement schemes around the country.
In subsequent posts, we will explore some of the emerging principles in more detail. We hope that this series will contribute to a better understanding of how garden style communities can be developed to provide sustainable places where people will want to live, work and play – as well as to make a contribution to meeting future housing needs.
We look forward to talking to you more about our ideas, and to hearing your views. Contact us to find out more.
Series posts
Garden cities: do they have a future?
Could Howard’s original vision, that the Garden City Movement would resolve fundamental social and community problems for both city and country dwellers, be lost?
The healthy garden city
With the connections between place, mobility, health and wellbeing now increasingly present in our policy conversations, are we finally catching up with the Garden City pioneers?
The disruptive 4th Industrial Revolution and its impact on Garden Cities
The UK needs to be ready for a truly disruptive 4th Industrial Revolution.
Garden cities: lighter, faster, cheaper
Can we realise the dream of a cleaner, greener, and more economical garden city?
Garden cities and movement: achieving 'good growth'
Why factoring in travel trends and achieving ‘good growth’ should be so important to the garden cities movement.
Planning policy challenges of the garden city model
The challenges facing planners are markedly different to when the original Garden Settlements were being planned 100 years ago.
Garden cities: redefining the principles for modern times
This first blog piece in our Creating Garden Communities series sets the scene for us to explore what these new principles might be.
Related publications
Creating Garden Communities
PBA reviews the original principles of the garden city movement and how these need to be updated to be relevant to the challenges of tomorrow.
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Key people
Bernard Greep
Partner – Planning
Jane Hirst
Partner – Planning
Sarah Matthews
Partner – Transport Planning and Engineering
