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Article: A garden town that bloomed.
- Article from:
- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 18, 2004
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Byline: MARK ANSTEAD
For those looking for a mix of town and country less than 30 minutes from London, Letchworth in Hertfordshire is a place to consider. The community was Britain's first planned town and the quality of green space, local facilities and overall tidy appearance is jealously guarded by its Heritage Foundation, set up to maintain the principles of the town's Victorian founder, Sir Ebenezer Howard.
Howard's principles don't look so unique 100 years on (Letchworth was laid out in 1903) because his ideas were adopted in many new towns. Today the notion that each house should have a garden and there be plenty of green spaces sounds very ...