New Towns

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New Towns
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The Plan

• In the 1950s and 1960s five new towns were built
  to try and ease Scotlands housing crisis.
• This was a bold and imaginative idea but was very
  expensive.
• The following are features the towns have in
  common.

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Features

• Traffic management
• Variety in housing
• Planned
• Shopping centres
• Jobs
• Overspill population
• Industrial estates
• Leisure facilities

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East Kilbride

• East Kilbride grew from a small village of around
  900 inhabitants to become a large burgh in 1930.
• After the Second World War Glasgow was suffering
  from chronic shortages of housing, which were in
  part due to bomb damage from the war.
• Before the war, the city was suffering from
  overcrowding and poor housing conditions,
  particularly in areas such as the Gorbals.
• The Clyde Valley Regional Plan 1946 picked sites
  where new towns were to be built to help
  alleviate the problem through an overspill
  agreement.
• East Kilbride was the first new town to be
  designated in 1947

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Shopping

• The town is occupied by a large shopping centre
  comprising 6 linked malls.
• This holds the title of largest indoor shopping
  centre in Scotland and 10th largest in Europe

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Other new towns

• The five new towns have been very successful.
• They are
• Irvine
• East Kilbride
• Cumbernauld
• Glenrothes
• Livingstone