London Planners Alter Buildings to Aid Traffic

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 19, 23 January 1937, Page 9 (Supplement)

London Planners Alter Buildings to Aid Traffic

LONDON, Nov. 2.—Although it is now well known that Home was not built in a day, to-day is the day many motorists here are wishing hard that London could be rebuilt in the night. It would not even matter if the streets were just as bendy and just as narrow, Londoners say. If this wisn were granted Loudon magistrates would have a much easier time, motorists would find traffic fiow’ing more quickly and policemen would have to deal with fewer traffic jams. From to-day all plans for new buildings in London, or existing buildings re-erected, must provide means of entrance and egress for vehicles and proper accommodation for setting dow ? n passengers and goods. This means that ail new buildings will have to have an “in-and-out” drive, either in a forecourt or under cover, aud that vchic-les will no longer stand in the road unloading or waiting for loads. This regulation has been made by the Loudon County Council. Powers to impost such conditions were given to the L.C.C. under the Restriction of Ribbon Development Act of 1925. The order applies to any “places of public resort” containing a space of not less than 250,000 cubic feet. In practice this means any normal town building, since very few erected are less than 50 by 50 by 100 feet in measurements. Anyone proposing to put up a new building is required to submit plans to the L.C.C., satisfying the council that the character of the biulding is such as not to cause increased vehicular traffic along any adjacent road, and that satisfactory arrangements will be made to limit interference with traffic along any adjacent road.