MODEL GARDEN CITY

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20006, 3 August 1939, Page 5

MODEL GARDEN CITY

VICTORIAN PROPOSAL UP TO £1,500,000 COST HOMES FOR 2200 WORKERS (Elec. Tel. Copyricht—United Proas Assn.) (Reed: Aug. 3, 9 a.m.) MELBOURNE, Aug. 2. The most ambitious garden city plan yet attempted! in Australia is to be undertaken shortly by Dunlop Perdriau Limited, which proposes to transfer its Port Melbourne works, with 2200 employees, to ia site at Beaumaris, on the bay side, 12 males from the city. The cost of the undertaking is estimated at £1,500,000. It will include a new factory, 1200 houses, shops, a hospital, a theatre and a school. The latest town-planning ideas will be adopted in the scheme, which is a result of anany months of investigation. Three-Quarters of Square Mile The area of land! concerned comprises 'three-quarters' of a square mile. The site lends itself to landscape planning. Recreation and sports grounds are to be features. Safe bathing beaches will provide a natural attraction. . The object is to make the model town a complete self-contained unit for work, living and l play. The novel housing plans include a proposed community laundry service and the reticulation of a hot water service in insulated pipes from' a central heating station. The company will probably be unable to give the employees' lower rents than they are at present paying, but the scheme will give them better conditions at (the same rents with substantial weekly .saving in transport fares.