With the success of Team GB in Rio 2016 and the Paralympic Games due to start, sport is on the mind of many, but did you know that Town Planning was once within the Olympics?
Mark Thackeray, , a Consultant at Walsingham Planning, writes for ‘Planning and Building Control today’ to discuss the case for greater recognition of planning and placemaking.
Mark Thackeray writes:
‘…. The year is 1932, the place is Los Angeles, the event is town planning… the winner, ahead of a dangerous Dane and a battling Belgian, was John Hughes of Great Britain for his work on a sports stadium and leisure centre in Liverpool.
…1932 was an Olympic year when, as you won’t recall, Team GB did not exactly cover itself with glory. John Hughes’ gold was one of only five that we achieved (town planning, men’s 800m, men’s 50,000m walk, coxless pairs and coxless fours if you want to know), so maybe his efforts deserve a belated ‘thank you’ (if you’re listening, Claire Balding).
Read the article at Planning & Building Control Today
