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and conversely for recovery of a moiety of the value
from any person whose property is increased in value
as a result of the making of a town planning scheme.
Moreover, Sect. 60 of the Act enables the responsible
Authority, for the purpose of a town planning scheme,
to purchase any land comprised in such scheme and
the judicious exercise of this power together with
those powers under the compensation clauses just
referred to should when applied to such a town as
Willesden enable its further extension to proceed
under a comprehensive plan which while conserving
and protecting private interests, does no injustice to
those great civic rights and aspirations which are
certain to dominate our newer towns.
The garden cities and suburbs which are springing
into existence are competitive factors which cannot
be ignored by those older communities which have
hitherto been handicapped by the lack of those
comprehensive powers of planning which the designers
of the model towns possess.
Most of the fine trees which the centuries had
bequeathed and which judicious planning would have