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authorities which seek to provide essential community facilities in our overcrowded
 and grimy cities. Secondly, the New Towns were designed to
measure up to a modern conception of what a community should be like,
not merely to provide a replica of what we already have as a legacy from
the past. To reduce them to the general existing standard is to defeat their
whole purpose; they should be models towards which we should move, not
repetitions of our previous mistakes. Thirdly, the New Towns represent a
net saving in national resources as against rehousing in old areas, as well as
making a contribution to the health, efficiency and happiness. of our people.
Labour must learn the lessons of its own achievement, must fight to preserve
high standards, to improve and to extend the original plans.
it was a Labour Government that launched this unique experiment,
which has drawn visitors from all over the world to study and admire it.
It should be the concern of the Labour Movement to see that it is carried
through to success. The New Towns should be showplaces of democratic
Socialism. the proof that it can develop people as well as change things.

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