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History. The term town planning first appeared in 1906 and was first used in British legislation in 1909. The roots of the UK town and country planning system as it emerged in the immediate post-war years lay in concerns developed over the previous half century in response to industrialisation and urbanisation.
The TCPA founded the first Garden Cities in Letchworth and Welwyn and successfully secured the first planning legislation in 1909. The association campaigned through the inter-war period for new settlements and a transformation in housing standards sparking a worldwide interest in town planning.
Though the main purpose of this Act is to enable local planning authorities to acquire blitzed and blighted land for planning purposes, it contains important provisions extending the inadequate protection previously given by the law to buildings of architectural or historic interest.
LAND USE AND SPATIAL PLANNING AUTHORITY.
The Housing and Planning Act which received Royal Assent on 12 May 2016 applies to England. It contains a wide range of measures to expand homeownership, reform housing management and the planning process, and increase housing supply to tackle the housing crisis.

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The 1946 New Towns Act established an ambitious programme for building new towns. It gave the government power to designate areas of land for new town development. A series of development corporations set up under the Act were each responsible for one of the projected towns.
The Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (c 8) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom regulating the development of land in England and Wales. It is a central part of English land law in that it concerns town and country planning in the United Kingdom.
Detached property extensions do not extend beyond the rear wall of the original home by more than 4m. The extensions roof ridges must not exceed the height of the original house and the eaves must not exceed 2m in height of the boundary of 3m. Single-storey extensions must not exceed 4m in height.

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