| Description | Correspondence and other records primarily regarding the activities of the Ministry of Town and Country Planning between Leonard Elmhirst and: G Pepler, Ministry of Health; G Clark; G Dykes, H Hack, L Watson, and A Williams, Ministry of Town and Country Planning. Subjects include: the International Federation for Housing and Town Planning; housing and rural reconstruction; the South West Housing Co-operative; suggestions for the layout of a new sports ground for Dartington Parish; the National Parks Bill; and proposals by the Forestry Commission to acquire planting areas.
Additional material in this folder includes: notes on a discussion at Dartington Hall with the Ministry of Town and Country Planning; a
memorandum 'National Parks', observations by Wilfred E Hiley; note by A Caesar regarding an analytical study of the growth of a village; a draft proposal for an 'Enquiry into the Location of New Industrial Enterprises in Country Towns'; suggestions for a survey of Devon; a printed information leaflet by the Town and Country Planning Association '1947 Town and Country Planning Bill'; and 2 publications of 'Town and Country Planning' (1966) containing articles witch mention Dartington Estate and Leonard Elmhirst |