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countryside.
The HISTORY of REDDITCH New Town
'I think it is very regrettable that the Redditch Borough Council do not employ a landscape
architect and that they expect the future of the town landscape to be solely managed by
maintenance staff. In other words, there are no designers.
'l think we have created a nicely-contained town which has all the benefits of the
countryside brought into it. Redditch is not a place where you feel overwhelmed by
concrete and brick- work. The architecture is very modest and the planting is very lavish.
So I like to think that, by creative planting, we have dispelled the thoughts expressed
by Walter Savage Landor.'
The Green Heart of Redditch, from Bordesley Abbey to Washford is larger than Central
Park New York.
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