unwin_green_girdle

Concerned about water pollution and air pollution from coal fires, Raymond Unwin argued for London to be decentralised and for it to have an outer park belt, which he called a Green Girdle (diagrams from First Report, Greater London Regional Planning Committee, 1929). The top diagrams represent the Girdle of parkland and the lower diagrams show possible areas for building development. Unwin was much concerned about the injustice consequent upon allowing one landowner to develop his property and telling an adjacent landowner that his property must be protected from development.