COUNTRY LIFE
EVEN before the plans are being put into active operation it becomes evident that the urban planners of rural development, so called, will have to acknowledge the country knows best what is to its own good. Two striking examples of this emerge in a district well known to me. The people of Stevenage, which is to be the first of the new satellite towns, have a much better scheme for their enlarged future than that which was to be imposed on them. It involves the destruction of fewer houses and farms, and has advantages in social distribution. One may hopefully expect that it will be after all preferred. The second town was to be near the village of Redbourn in the same county. This idea is likely to be wholly rejected, largely for two reasons: it would be too near an existing town, and suitable railway facilities could be with diffi- culty supplied. The alternative here is the enlargement of neighbouring towns and villages ; and in general this system seems to be the better, especially as most of the newly projected towns are planned not for thinly populated districts but for counties where villages are thick upon the ground.
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