Papers relating to the Royal Academy Planning Committee

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It was reported at a meeting of Council that Lutyens had proposed that a committee of architect members and other representative experts be appointed to make plans for the future planning of London, against a background of the enormous devastation that London had suffered by 1941. The proposal had been approved by the King and members of the Government (Council minutes, 18 February 1941). The Committee was formed "to draw attention to the advantages that may be obtained by replanning on imaginative lines, and to initiate a long-term policy of public benefit" (Annual Report 1941, p. 58.) Illustrative booklets were issued in 1942 and 1944, but Lutyens died before the intended work could be undertaken. (Hutchison, p.167f.)

Memoranda and correspondence relating to the Royal Academy Planning Committee.