Letchworth Garden City and its leafy Edwardian avenues (left) have excited Chengdu developers who want to develop a modern but clean suburb Developers of a new suburb for two million people in a ...

New ’urban design and architectural practice’ EcoResponsive Environments has won a competition to develop designs for an extension of Letchworth Garden City Founded last year by two former PDP ...

A century after the last design contest – the city held national competitions in 1905 and 1907 to find ‘innovative housing costing no more than £150’ – the search is on again to find the next ...

Ebenezer Howard in the town, 1911. © Garden City Foundation (Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation) “All the advantages of the most energetic and active town ...

Police closed roads after a gardener found part of a tank missile. Hertfordshire Police was called to Birds Hill in Letchworth Garden City at 10:15 GMT after the discovery of a suspicious device. A ...

Look East looks at at life in the world's oldest garden city. Neil Bradford spent the day at Letchworth in Hertfordshire (population 33,600), which was designed in 1903 with the aim of blending the ...

The brand-new play area and events such as Comic Con and the Pumpkin Patch have left BID manager Richard Harbon feeling optimistic heading into the new year. "There are many reasons for businesses, ...

A new housing scheme inspired by the Garden Cities movement has opened in the first one to be built - Letchworth Garden City. The 60 home scheme, built by SDC and designed by architect Cole Thompson ...

Cole Thompson Anders and others reinterpret arts and crafts design for 21st Century This scheme, a contemporary reading of garden city design has just gone up for planning in front of Hertfordshire ...

This story was submitted to the People’s War site by Dorothy MacKenzie for Three Counties Action on behalf of Mrs Greta Hewitt (nee Groves) and has been added to the site with her permission. The ...