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The HISTORY of REDDITCH New Town

1968 Tony Greenwood, Minister of Housing and Local Government, opens first house.
Exhibition of Town Centre proposals.

First house occupied in Greenlands.

Social Development plan accepted.

First house occupied in Woodrow.

BLK relocates to new factory on the Washford Estate.

Gaumont Cinema closes.

New Town contract – Warwick Highway, 1968 – 1970.

Park Farm industrial estate started.

Redditch New Town Master Plan Approved (May)

1969 Temporary meeting room opened at Woodrow.

Woodland management dedication scheme approved.

Dudley, Stourbridge, Sutton Coldfield and West Bromwich now “overspill”
authorities.

Funding of Town Centre Phases 1 and 11 agreed.

Publicity and information office agreed.

Declaration of interest by Halfords to move to Redditch.

Lord Mayor of Birmingham opened the new Park Farm industrial estate.

First multi-storey car park scheme approved.

Archaeological investigations of Moons Moat commenced.

New Town contract – Palace Theatre phase 1, 1969 – 1971, Contract 20/801.

Washford industrial estate started.

1970 Dennis Howell, Minister of State for Housing, opened 1000th rented house.

Henley Highway opened.

Urban District Council accepted Palace Theatre scheme.

Board approved compulsory purchase orders in Town Centre.

Viscount Cobham, Lord Lieutenant of Worcs., opens Woodrow local centre.

Paul Channon, Parliamentary Secretary places a pile for first multi-storey car

Spernal Ash Sewage Works opens.

Greenlands estate awarded national “Housing Design Award”.

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