TCPA New Towns Network

Essex ‘Mark One’ New Town – Designated 4 January 1949 When designated to regulate the scattered settlements of the existing Plotlands and to assist in…

Berkshire ‘Mark One’ New Town – Designated 17 June 1949 Following the rejection, due to agricultural value and airfield operations, of Patrick Abercombie’s Greater London…

Lancashire ‘Mark Three’ New Town – Designated 26 March 1970 Central Lancashire New Town was essentially a regeneration and development programme for Preston, Leyland and…

Northamptonshire ‘Mark One’ New Town – Designated 1 April 1950 Increased demand for iron and steel in the late 1940s led to the expansion of…

West Sussex ‘Mark One’ New Town – Designated 9 January 1947 The second of the New Towns and designed to accommodate London’s overspill, Crawley New…

Essex ‘Mark One’ New Town – Designated 25 March 1947 Identified as the location for a London ‘ring town’ in Patrick Abercrombie’s 1944 Greater London…

Hertfordshire ‘Mark One’ New Town – Designated 20 May 1948 Hatfield was designated alongside Welwyn Garden City, having first been identified for expansion in Abercrombie’s…

Hertfordshire Designated 4 February 1947 The third of the London ‘ring towns’, Hemel Hempstead was designated to help in decentralising the population of Greater London.…

Buckinghamshire ‘Mark Three’ New Town – Designated 23 January 1967 Designated to accommodate overspill from Greater London (the first New Town with this purpose since…

County Durham  ‘Mark One’ New Town – Designated 19 April 1947 Following a period of decline resulting from the collapse of the coal-mining industry in…

Northamptonshire ‘Mark Three’ New Town – Designated 14 February 1968 Historically a market town, Northampton was designated as a New Town to accommodate London overspill…

Cambridgeshire ‘Mark Three’ New Town – Designated 21 July 1967 Peterborough was a city long before it was designated a New Town. The feasibility of…

County Durham ‘Mark One’ New Town – Designated 10 March 1948 Situated on what was the richest seam of the Durham coalfield, Peterlee was conceived…

Worcestershire ‘Mark Two’ New Town – Designated 10 April 1964 Redditch was already a market town of notable size when in 1964 it was designated…

Cheshire ‘Mark Two’ New Town – Designated 10 April 1964 Runcorn’s masterplan aimed for ‘unity and balance’ between all of its elements, including between public…

Lancashire ‘Mark Two’ New Town – Designated 9 October 1961 Skelmersdale was the forerunner of the ‘Mark Two’ New Towns and the first in the…

Hertfordshire ‘Mark One’ New Town – Designated 11 November 1946 Stevenage was the first New Town to be designated under the New Towns Act 1946.…

Shropshire ‘Mark Two’ New Town – Designated 16 January 1963 Telford was originally designated as Dawley, changing its name to Telford (with an increase in…

Cheshire ‘Mark Three’ New Town – Designated 26 April 1968 Initially designated with twin aims of accommodating Manchester overspill and revitalising industrial areas, Warrington’s purpose…

Tyne and Wear ‘Mark Two’ New Town – Designated 24 July 1964 Faced with the post-war decline of the traditional industries of coal-mining and shipbuilding,…

Hertfordshire ‘Mark One’ New Town – Designated 20 May 1948 Welwyn Garden City has a unique story. Having started life in 1919 as England’s second…