tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post5721282909035136690..comments2024-03-05T10:52:24.691+00:00Comments on Mark Wadsworth: More internecine bickering re town planningMark Wadsworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-25540607311310150582014-12-18T09:49:44.133+00:002014-12-18T09:49:44.133+00:00Hardly internecine bickering on my part, just poin...Hardly internecine bickering on my part, just pointing out some big talent (with LVT connexions) has come up with some interesting ideas worked out in major plans.<br />I dunno why you think commuting by train across a Green Belt from metropolises to more countrified locales means I want villages 20 miles apart.Edge of Green Belt places like Reading, Chelmsford, Crawley, St Albans etc are not villages but save for the Green Belt would be connected to London by Ribbon Development if the sacred principle of laissez faire or anarchy in its polite sense were adhered to.The Restriction of<br />Ribbon Development Act 1935 is quoted extensively on the Net.Without some such (which amount to a Green Belt) all your scattered settlements would be linked up by buildings-lined roads that then sprout stalks at right angles in a good old mess.NB Joe Chamberlain<br />saw that laissez faire competition and private water companies were bringing Birmingham to a standstill and poisoning people in the 1870's. Modern proponents of laissez faire must hark back to a previous era, probably that of Gothic horror.DBC Reedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17891849727783879145noreply@blogger.com