From Canvey Island to Jaywick Sands, from Peacehaven to Pitsea; in the first 40 years of last century, thousands of English families made their own place in the sun, without benefit of councils, planners, architects, building societies, or even builders. Were they, as many planners and environmentalists suggested, making rural slums and seaside eyesores, or were they providing a unique example of unaided self-build housing, with lessons for us all today? Here Dennis Hardy and Colin Ward uncover the history of the 'plotlands' of South-East England, telling the fascinating detail of the places people built for themselves on the coast and in the country, and of what happened to them since, drawing parallels with similar developments in other parts of the world.
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Traditional concentrations of cities and urban life gave way in the early twentieth century to a new landscape of dispersal. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
plotland areas, plotland sites, plotland origins, plotland development, plotland landscape, leisure plots, plotland settlements, libertarian suburb, moveable dwellings, chalet gardens, borrowed pound, unmade roads, scattered development, army huts, shingle ridges, urban district council, vacant plots, allotment gardens, bus bodies, makeshift structures, guidance plan, main drainage Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Essex, Shoreham Beach, Canvey Island, Gerard Young, Winchelsea Beach, Jaywick Sands, Clacton Council, Frank Stedman, Isle of Wight, Planning Act, Pagham Beach, Pett Level, Second World War, Thames Valley, Department of the Environment, Essex Chronicle, Havering Park, House of Lords, Public Record Office, Sixty Acres, South Woodham Ferrers, Thames Conservancy, Third World, Isle of Sheppey, Secretary of State New!
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Traditional concentrations of cities and urban life gave way in the early twentieth century to a new landscape of dispersal. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
plotland areas, plotland sites, plotland origins, plotland development, plotland landscape, leisure plots, plotland settlements, libertarian suburb, moveable dwellings, chalet gardens, borrowed pound, unmade roads, scattered development, army huts, shingle ridges, urban district council, vacant plots, allotment gardens, bus bodies, makeshift structures, guidance plan, main drainage Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Essex, Shoreham Beach, Canvey Island, Gerard Young, Winchelsea Beach, Jaywick Sands, Clacton Council, Frank Stedman, Isle of Wight, Planning Act, Pagham Beach, Pett Level, Second World War, Thames Valley, Department of the Environment, Essex Chronicle, Havering Park, House of Lords, Public Record Office, Sixty Acres, South Woodham Ferrers, Thames Conservancy, Third World, Isle of Sheppey, Secretary of State New!
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