In 1912 Raymond Unwin published a pamphlet, Nothing gained by Overcrowding, outlining the principles of the Garden City.
[2] The Local Government Board in 1912 recommended that: Cottages for the working classes should be built with wider frontages and grouped around open spaces which would become recreation grounds.
They should have three bedrooms, a large living room, a scullery fitted with a bath and a separate WC to each house with under cover accessThey published five model plans.
The Office for Works built the Well Hall Estate in Eltham for workers at the Royal Ordnance Factory in Woolwich.
[4] There was to be secondary access to the sides of semi-detached houses and by ground floor passages through larger terraces.
The advantages of cul de sacs were noted as cheap method of providing services and preventing through traffic.
The Committee noted the advantages of a varied provision of housing types and not restricting an estate to one social class.
It was a quiet room for reading, writing, a sick relative or formal entertaining of non-family visitors.