Squalor

• New Towns Act 1946


  New towns were created and slum housing was also destroyed and replaced
• Positive of New Towns Act 1946


  • Plans for 14 new towns in Britain were laid out, including Glenrothes, Cumbernauld and East Kilbride
• Town and County Planning Act 1947


  Provided councils with more planning powers when building houses
• Positive of Town and County Planning Act 1947


  • This allowed councils to buy land to redevelop. This led to more houses being built
• Temporary Pre fabricated (pre-fab) were built

  1. To help solve the housing shortage

  2. They were easily built and it was a quick solution to the housing shortage
• The council built council houses

  Around 700,000 council houses were built between 1945 and 1951 to provide good quality family accommodation with reasonable rent