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2 unusual facts about London Plan


London Plan

Following the 2008 change of mayor, a new review was initiated in July 2008 and a new London Plan published in July 2011.

The London Plan is the statutory spatial development strategy for the Greater London area in the United Kingdom that is written by the Mayor of London and published by the Greater London Authority.



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Peter Shepheard

In 1943, his godfather, Patrick Abercrombie, offered Shepheard a job on the Greater London Plan for the postwar development of London.

Rivers of London

Blue Ribbon Network, a policy element of the London Plan relating to the navigable waterways of London

West Cross Route

The WCR and the other roads planned in the 1960s for central London had developed from early schemes prior to the Second World War through Sir Patrick Abercrombie's County of London Plan, 1943 and Greater London Plan, 1944 to a 1960s Greater London Council (GLC) scheme that would have involved the construction of many miles of motorway-standard roads across the city and demolition on a massive scale.