Level: Category
Sound Archive
Level: Fonds
BBC ESSEX
Scope and Content:
Title: Origins of New Towns in Essex
Speaker(s): Gibberd, Sir Fredercik; Gibberd, Lady; Galloway, Douglas; Ridgwell, Colin; Gibson, Tom; Manning-Press, Chris
Date of recording: 1989
Date of broadcast: 10/9/89
Length of tape: 28 minutes
Depositor: BBC Essex
Restrictions: BBC Essex
Synopis of tape: The planningof new towns in Essex; archive broadcast of hostile reception to Minister Lewis Silkin at public meeting in 1946; Harlow - archive recording of Sir Frederick Gibberd, the architect, and interview with his widow on his landscaping plans; comments by early residents; Basildon - Douglas Galloway, Chief Architect and General Manager, Basildon Development Corporation, on early proposals for new town and difficulties of establishing ownership of the land; South Woodham Ferrers - Colin Ridgewell, then Senior Planning Officer, Essex County Council, on reasons for choosing site and difficulties of establishing ownership of the land; Tom Gibson, former Principal Development Officer, South Woodham Ferrers, on 1973 public enquiry, opposition of village residents to development.
Dates of Creation:
1989

Key terms

TypeKey termsDescription
Subjects Local government Origins of New Towns in Essex 1989
Document Types Sound recording Origins of New Towns in Essex 1989