Monthly Archives: September 2021

A Garden Village

In 1913 the Welsh Town Planning and Housing Trust proposed an innovative new housing scheme in Wrexham; the first of its kind in Wales. Taking as their inspiration similar schemes at Port Sunlight on the Wirral and Bournville in Birmingham, … Continue reading

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Why the Germans Do It Better: Notes From a Grown-Up Country by John Kampfner

Book Review – September 2021 In 1994, when Angela Merkel was Germany’s environment minister, her British opposite number, John Gummer, invited her to stay with him and his family in his Suffolk constituency. They spent each evening in his sitting … Continue reading

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