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NEW TOWN

New towns were a British initiative passed in 1946 with the object of decentralising the population and industry from London and the other major British cities. Initially fifteen new towns were designated, twelve for England and Wales and three for Scotland, each town was to be self-contained and locally governed with a mixed population to provide a balanced social life. By the 1960s half a million people lived in the fifteen new towns, but pressure on the major cities remained acute.
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