The Arterial Road Conferences were the event that kick-started London’s inter-war roadbuilding boom, and were responsible for giving us Western Avenue, the North Circular and many other routes that shaped London and still form the backbone of its highway network today. The Conferences had their genesis in a series of existing ideas for road projects…

The Layfield Report was the culmination of the Greater London Development Plan Inquiry, which – at the time, and until about 2005 – was the biggest public inquiry in UK history. The inquiry was chaired by Frank Layfield and hence the resulting report took his name. Policy background To a certain extent, the GLDP Inquiry…