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At ASPECT Windows and Doors we supply and fit an extensive range of uPVC windows, doors and conservatories. Our manufacturing and quality control services combined with our highly trained and experienced fitters ensure that all our customers are happy and content when the work is complete.
Welwyn Garden City was founded by Sir Ebenezer Howard in 1920 following his previous experiment in Letchworth Garden City. Howard had called for the creation of planned towns that were to combine the benefits of the city and the countryside and to avoid the disadvantages of both. The Garden Cities and Town Planning Association had defined a garden city as a town designed for healthy living and industry of a size that makes possible a full measure of social life but not larger, surrounded by a rural belt; the whole of the land being in public ownership, or held in trust for the community.
In 1919, Howard arranged for the purchase of land in Hertfordshire that had already been identified as a suitable site. On 29 April 1920 a company, Welwyn Garden City Limited, was formed to plan and build the garden city, chaired by Sir Theodore Chambers. Louis de Soissons was appointed as architect and town planner and Frederic Osborn as secretary. The first house was occupied just before Christmas 1920.
The town is laid out along tree lined boulevards with a neo Georgian town centre. It has its own environmental protection legislation, the Scheme of Management for Welwyn Garden City. Every road has a wide grass verge. The spine of the town is Parkway, a central mall or scenic parkway, almost a mile long. The view along Parkway to the south was once described as one of the worlds finest urban vistas. Older houses are on the west side of Parkway and newer houses on the east side.
The original planners intended that all the residents of the garden city would shop in one shop and created the Welwyn Stores, a monopoly which caused some local resentment. Commercial pressures have since ensured much more competition and variety, and the Welwyn Stores were in 1984 taken over by the John Lewis Partnership.
There was a large general hospital in the town, the Queen Elizabeth II Hospital, but in 2014 emergency and inpatient services were transferred to the Lister Hospital in Stevenage. A new hospital, completed in June 2015, offers outpatient, diagnostic and ante/postnatal services.
A shopping mall, the Howard Centre, was built in the 1980s, incorporating the original railway station.
Excavated Roman baths are preserved in a steel vault underneath junction 6 of the A1(M) and are open to the public.
We are often working in or around the Welwyn Garden City area, supplying and fitting conservatories, windows and doors. Why not check out the rest of our website for further information about our products and services.
As you can imagine from the name of the town, Welwyn Garden City is a town that has a good deal of greenery and the West side of the town, which is the oldest part has the largest gardens and more mature woodland. People who live in the town centre itself often have a view of beautifully planted boulevards of trimmed hedges and planted borders to the front of their properties and mature and magnificent woodland to the rear.
It follows that many of the gardens are designed to reflect the natural beauty of the town as a whole and a great way of appreciating this beauty is from the comfort of a conservatory.
Conservatories are a fantastic way of bringing the outside inside, without the need to set foot outdoors. A conservatory will give you a wonderful view of your surroundings owing to the abundance of glass they have. This allows you to relax and admire the natural beauty that surrounds you from the comfort of your chair, what could be better?
Welwyn Garden City was founded by Sir Ebenezer Howard in the 1920s following his previous experiment in Letchworth Garden City. Howard had called for the creation of planned towns that were to combine the benefits of the city and the countryside and to avoid the disadvantages of both. He envisaged a town designed for healthy living and industry of a size that makes possible a full measure of social life but not larger, surrounded by a rural belt; the whole of the land being in public ownership, or held in trust for the community.
So popular was the garden city movement that it was adopted by several states in America and more lately, it has received a revival in the United Kingdom, with a great deal of discussion about building more garden cities or converting existing towns in the near future.
What could possibly be nicer than sitting in your conservatory, watching the squirrels and bird life that visits your garden, or even simply having an extra area in your property that can take the strain of overcrowding off the rest of the house?
Whether it's a conservatory or replacement double glazed windows and doors you require for your Welwyn Garden City property, we are the company to call! A conservatory supplied and fitted by us will give you a genuine feel good factor as well as increasing your living space, whereas our windows and doors are superb at reducing noise and improving your overall security. So if you live in or around the Welwyn Garden City area and have been thinking about improving your property and quality of life, why not give us a call.
Why not contact ASPECT Windows and Doors for a no obligation quote today?
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