Hatfield, United Kingdom, Europe
Year 1948 latitude: 52° 13' longitude: -2° 36' Period Initiator(s) Planning organization Development Corporation Nationality initiator(s) U.K. Designer(s) / Architect(s) Design organization Inhabitants 39,000 (2011) Target population 25,000 Town website https://www.welhat.gov.uk/ Town related links Literature type of New Town: > scale of autonomy New-Town-in-Town Satellite New Town Company Town > client Private Corporation Public Corporation > policy Capital Decentralization Industrialization Resettlement Economic
"Hatfield was designated alongside Welwyn Garden City, having first been identified for expansion in Abercrombie’s Greater London Plan. The ‘twin’ New Towns, separated by a thin strip of Green Belt, were developed by separate Development Corporations (run by the same personnel). Part of the reason for Hatfield’s designation was to provide housing for the rapidly expanding workforce of the de Havilland Aircraft Company. Following closure of the aircraft factory in the 1990s, the site was used to develop 2,000 homes – and a campus for the University of Hertfordshire and a business park, which together replaced the jobs lost by the closure of the aircraft company. Hatfield town centre has suffered significant decline since the 1990s, which has led to high vacancy levels and a public realm in need of renewal." source: Town & Country Planning Association (TCPA) https://www.tcpa.org.uk/hatfield
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