Some slides of Old Cumbernauld and Environmental aspects

1. Cumbernauld-environs.org Section 1: The initial Background

2. Cumbernauld-environs.org The Web-site of Environmental Sub-Group Of Cumbernauld Community Forum (a Power-point Presentation on the Background about the New-Town)

3. History of Cumbernauld New Town 1.0 Background of Designation of a New town in Cumbernauld 2.0 The Designation of Cumbernauld 3.0 The Design of Cumbernauld 4.0 The Designated Population etc. 5.0 The 1958 Plan 6.0 The 1962 Plan 7.0 The 1973 ‘Designation’ of an extended Cumbernauld 8.0 Landscape in Cumbernauld

4. 1.0 Overcrowding in Glasgow The Clyde Valley Regional Plan The New Towns Acts of 1946

5. 2.0 The ‘Designation Order’ The Context

6. 3.0 The Reaction to the ‘Suburban’ Garden City A single ‘Hill Top’ Town Centre A Revolution in Town Planning & Road Design

7. 4.0 A Population of 50,000 (1955 ‘designation’) A ‘high density’ Compact Urban Town

8. 5.0 Cumbernauld New Town – ‘Preliminary Planning Proposals’ {April 1958} The Design of the Road System/ A Hierarchy of Roads The ‘Radial Road’ connecting the ‘Trunk Road’ {A80} at 2 Grade Separated Junctions at ‘OLD INNS’ and ‘AUCHENKILNS’

9. 6.0 A Population of 70,000 by 1961 the CDC decided to increase the ‘planned’ population Neighbourhood Developments such as at the VILLAGE , Condorrat , Abronhill , South Wardpark (the latter was later designated for industry)

10. 7.0 A Changing Town : Even the 1962 measures proved to be inadequate Lower Densities The New M80 to be in the KELVIN VALEY

11. 8.0 Structural Landscape New Landscape in the ‘Extended Area’

12. Acknowledgements It should be noted that this represents extracts from a previous paper and we are seeking to provide suitable acknowledgements from the Author © D M Logan May 2010