More Colours on. Housing is Birmingham Plea
I3IRMINGHAM. — A plea for the use of brighter colours on municipal housing estates was made by Alderman A. E. Ager, of Birmingham, at a confercnce of local authorities in the West Midlands, held under the auspiees of tho National Housing and Town Planuing Council. He thought there was too mueh graining and drab gray on tliesc estates and suggested that instead such colour as bright red and dcep blue should be used, with splashes of white. Mr J. P. Lovell, estates and liousing -man ager 'for Derby Corporation, said that with regard to external hou.se painting the average Englishman seemed to be thoroughly frightened of colour. On an estate of 1000 tenants he' eould not get one to break away from the ordinary brown or green. The same speaker suggested the grouping'of'houses for aged persons in a quiet part of eaeh municipal estate. He thought . that, as most old people could hardly. be expected to loolc after gai'dens, their homes should be bungalows, built in a communal gardeu, lcept beautiful and - maintained by the local authority and provided with scats, sheltcrs, flower beds and shrubs. .
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 184, 21 August 1937, Page 16
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