Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 119, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1920 — Home Town Helps [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Home Town Helps

REALIZE VALUE OF GARDENS British Housing Authorities Forbid Erection of Dwellings Without Suitable Breathing Bpots. The new methods of lani| development in Great Britain now adopted by .local authorities mark a clean breakaway from the “jerry planning” methods of the past. Instead of crowding from thirty to forty houses per acre in closely packed streets, local authorities, acting under the guidance of the ministry of health, are adopting the standard that In urban areas not more than twelve houses, and in rural areas not more than eight houses, should be built per acre. As a beneficent result of’ the adoption of these new standards the large garden Is to be henceforward a fundamental feature of every newly built home. The distance between houses on opposite sides of a street is not less than seventy feet, thereby making a broad park line road. Under the new method the cost per house of garden suburb roads on an estate with twelve houses per acre and with a frontage of twenty-five feet per house is less than under the old method with twenty houses to the acre and only 17-foot frontages to the houses. This is the opening out of a new period of English town and village development. Under a clause added to lie housing and town planning act in the committee of the house of commons every urban local authority with upwards of twenty thousand population, must between 1923 and 1926 prepare a town-planning scheme, and under the clause the exercise of town planning care will become general.