The County of London Plan was prepared for the London County Council in 1943. Its authors were John Henry Forshaw (1895-1973) and Sir Leslie Patrick Abercrombie (1879-1957).
Its main purpose was to point out the main directions of development and reconstruction of London, which in the past decades had faced big changes and irregular growth. It was prepared in anticipation of the end of World War II and the reconstruction after bomb damage and large movements of population.
It particularly focused on five defects of London, to which the plan proposed remedies. The defects were:
- traffic congestion
- depressed housing
- inadequacy and maldistribution of open spaces
- jumble of houses and industries
- sprawl of London and consequent suburbanisation of surrounding country towns
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