. Transactions of conference held March 9 to 13, 1914, at Liberty buildings, Liverpool. per acre is reduced under a Town Planningscheme, the cost of roadmaking is also reduced. The next point we notice is the land unit. I do not knowif you have seen our Birmingham schemes. They have beenprinted, but I might perhaps explain quite briefly what wemean by the land unit. The corporation has power to deter-mine what area the land unit shall include. When a personsubmits his plans for the erection of a building, he is requiredto state whether he owns any land in the area of the schemeother than that
. Transactions of conference held March 9 to 13, 1914, at Liberty buildings, Liverpool. per acre is reduced under a Town Planningscheme, the cost of roadmaking is also reduced. The next point we notice is the land unit. I do not knowif you have seen our Birmingham schemes. They have beenprinted, but I might perhaps explain quite briefly what wemean by the land unit. The corporation has power to deter-mine what area the land unit shall include. When a personsubmits his plans for the erection of a building, he is requiredto state whether he owns any land in the area of the schemeother than that referred to in his plan. If he owns any otherland in the area, he is required to furnish a plan of it, and thecorporation then determine whether the area shall be dividedinto several units or not. The scheme specifies the number ofhouses to be erected per acre, and, in accordance with thatspecification, the corporation declare the number of houseswhich may be erected on the land unit. 48 carry o? Birmingham. THE PLANNING &cACT 1909. EAST BIRMINGHAM. PLAN REFERRED TO. In the East Birmingham scheme we have three differentdensities—the light grey 12 to the acre, medium grey 15,dark grey 18. The pink colour indicates factory areas. With regard to the allocation of areas for special purposes,I have already mentioned the building zones or areas ofbuilding density. We had great difficulty in determiningwhat areas should be reserved for the building of far as possible we have allotted for factories the areasadjoining the railways and canals, so that advantage mightbe taken of the facilities for transit. The northern factoryarea adjoins the Midland Railway, there is another factoryarea adjoining the London and North-western Railway, and thesouthern factory area adjoins the Great Western Railwayand a canal. With regard to the acquirement of open spaces by purchaseor otherwise, in this particular scheme (East Birmingham) wehave merely scheduled open spaces, and
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