Headmaster of – was also highly regarded further afield. Now kids either shlep to Fearnhill or the Highfield school in cars or make the trek in their cars to the Knight Templar school in the next town Baldock.


Yet once upon a time Letchworth’s patronage was venerable.


The first Garden City Association conference was held in 1901. Cadbury was the host, George Bernard Shaw one of the distinguished speakers. Among the high-minded architects in attendance was Raymond Unwin, who had joined Morris’s Socialist League in the 1880s. In 1903,


Architectural students and planners come from the world over to admire the vision of sustainable town planning and the world’s first ever roundabout


the association founded Letchworth Garden City, the very first of its kind; Unwin and Barry Parker were appointed its planners and architects the following year.


There are indeed beautiful aspects to Letchworth, but I think its legacy has been squandered by those that claimed to be its protectors. However, at the same time architectural students and planners come from the world over to admire the vision of sustainable town planning and the world’s first ever roundabout.


Designing and creating a sustainable community in the 21st Century: Can David Cameron learn from Letchworth? Yes is my answer – though I think Letchworth could learn from those that first dreamed of creating a sustainable community. It’s not that I am against modernisation, what I am suggesting is that if you look at the vast majority to what has been done to Letchworth since its heyday – it has been poor, and poorly executed (How on earth did Morrison’s get planning permission?), and over the years that has left me feeling frustrated and saddened every time I go back there. The only place you can park for free in the town centre is, you guessed it, Morrison’s.


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