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Chapter 3 – Part four: A central metropolitan block

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 Novermber 1963    The Buchanan Report    Chapter 3iv  
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it would be difficult to avoid the retention of Oxford Street and the Portland Place-Regent Street route

  • Fig. 207 Charlotte Place looking north to the new Post Office tower under construction.
    Fig. 207 Charlotte Place looking north to the new Post Office tower under construction.

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Figure 208 shows streets capable, from the point of view of their width and layout, of acting as local distributors. These are Great Portland Street, the Howland Street-Cavendish Street route, the Goodge Street-Mortimer Street route, with Charlotte Street and Berners Street possibly playing a part. It was also evident that it would be difficult to avoid the retention of Oxford Street and the Portland Place-Regent Street route as internal distributors for the West End as a whole.

Fig. 208 Capacity of existing roads; showing roads which would be capable, on the basis of their predominant width and alignment, of acting as distributors.
Fig. 208 Capacity of existing roads; showing roads which would be capable, on the basis of their predominant width and alignment, of acting as distributors.
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