sb. The preparation and construction of plans in accordance with which the growth and extension of a town is to be regulated, so as to make use of the natural advantages of the site, and to secure the most advantageous conditions of housing and traffic, the convenient situation of public buildings, open spaces, etc. Also attrib. So Town-plan sb., a ground-plan showing the positions of the streets and buildings in the proposed development of a town; Town-plan v., intr. to prepare a plan for the development of a town (whence Town-planned ppl. a.); Town-planner.
[1904. T. C. Horsfall, Improv. Dwellings People, 43. In preparing a rational town-building plan our task will be to avoid these faults. Ibid., 56. The preparation of building and town-extension plans.]
1906. (Nov. 6) Official Rep. Housing Deput. to Prime Minister, 8. Notes on Speeches. [Subject heading.] Town Planning and Village Development Commission.
1907. Daily Chron., 3 May, 8/4. ‘The Hampstead Tenants, Limited,’ began their work of town-planning in earnest yesterday, when the first sod of ‘Temple Fortune Farm’ (Finchley-road) was cut.
1908. Westm. Gaz., 18 April, 4/3. Some points of experience … to future town-planners.
1909. Act 9 Edw. VII., c. 44 (title), An Act to amend the Law relating to the Housing of the Working Classes, to provide for the making of Town Planning schemes [etc.]. Ibid., § 76. This Act may be cited as the Housing, Town Planning, &c. Act, 1909.
1909. H. I. Triggs (title), Town Planning, Past, Present, and Possible.
1909. Daily Chron., 14 April, 6/1. It seems incredible that any town should allow a new suburb to be made without a preliminary ‘town plan.’
1909. Westm. Gaz., 16 April, 12/4. We must learn … at least two lessons before we can hope to ‘town plan’ successfully.
1909. Daily Chron., 14 Sept., 3/3. The town-planned communities of the Continent.
1912. Daily News, 3 Jan., 4/7. Birmingham will be able to submit to the Local Government Board for approval its first town planning scheme in a completed form. At present the city has secured permission to ‘town plan’ two or three sites.
