Seventy years on,could the original idea for unusual towns such as Stevenage and Milton Keynes attend solve todays’ housing crisis?Protesters confronted the senior minister when he arrived in the market town to defend plans for tens of thousands of unusual homes in rural Hertfordshire. “It’s no sterling you jeering,” roared a determined Lewis Silkin. It’s going to be done.”It was 1946 and Silkin, or the then prime minister Clement Attlee’s planning supremo,had reach to explain the reasoning for Britain’s first postwar unusual town at Stevenage. He found some people in the old medieval town of that name in near-revolt. They daubed “Silkingrad” on local road signs and deflated the tyres of the ministerial car.
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Source: theguardian.com