Greater London Plan, 19441
| Date | 01 December 1945 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9299.1945.tb01933.x |
| Published date | 01 December 1945 |
NATIONAL
INSURANCE
AND
NATIONAL ASSISTANCE LOCAL OFFICES
by
those
control offices (perhaps called
(‘
Regional offices
”)
should be coincident
with the
‘‘
joint authority” areas proposed under the National Health
Service
administration.
If
this
organisatiod method
is
adopted, and
it
seems the only way
of
achieving the necessary spread of Assistance Board offices, it
is
essential that the
stafF
in
Iocal
offices
should
be
fully
empowered
to take
decisions
on
their
own
initiative. The
mantle
of
personal legal responsibility
not
to permit
need
to
go
met, at present worn
by
Relieving
Mces,
will
fall
on
the
local
officers of the
Board.
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NOVmbCr,
1944 (922-933).
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d.the
Old
Age
d
Widows’
Pensions
A%
1940.
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35
(2)
of
the
Unemplopslmt
Asmtanc
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e
Aat,
1934.
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Social
WOrk-JUly, 1941.
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3rd November, 1944,
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2nd
November,
1944,
cxduma
992.
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September
1944.
Hansard,
19th
ma,
1944.
l3
“
Old
Age
’in
the
New
World.”
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D.
Sanson.
(pilot
Press, Ltd.)
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1944, aollnvl986.
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on
P.Q.
1965,
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19th
Octoba,
1944.
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Repon
Table,
page
199.
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”The Assistance
Board
call
lthcir
hweleoffica
“Area
Offices.”
The
word
“local”
is
used
thraugho~a
this
de
to
mid
-.
z1h4iniq
of
Labour
Repit,
1938.
zz
Spesmhsed
wanm
Pcnsion
Of&crs
are
vployed
by the
Customs
and
Excise
Dapart-
mtnt
only
in
large
cmtres
ob
popuhth;
outslde
these
large
cenuas
the
work
is
dane
by
officers
mainly
concerned
with
Excise
work.
Greater
London
Ran,
1944’
By
SIR
GWILYM
GIBBON
1
HAVE
been
pressed several
times
to comment
on
the planning reports
for
London
and Greater London, but have hitherto refrained.
I
know
well
the work
of
Sir
Patrick Abercrombie,
his
(wide knowledge and experience,
his
eager enthusiasm
and
unflagging energy, and the
many
services rendered
by
him
.to the
cause
of
planning
and the preservation of amenities. With
his
company
of
assistants, he has produced a remarkable report
on
Greater London-and
a
valuable reFort
if
his
recommendations are not treated
as
more than suggestions.
My
present comments will be limited
in
the
main to that report and the proposals
about satellite towns, the backbone
of
his
scheme.
The
mischief
is
that Professor Abercrombie
was
set
an
impossible task.
To
prepare a sound scheme for an
area
even less important and complex than
London or Greater
London
is a task beyond the competence
of
any
one planner,
even
a
prince
of
planners. It
is
a job which
calls
for the co-operation of experts
1Fmm
The
Architect
and
Building
News,
1st
June,
1945.
137
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