ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the implementation of planning and housing policy in the period before the World War I and the attitudes of progressives to the 1909 Housing and Town Planning Bill and Lloyd George's land campaign and land enquiries. It discusses that the contribution of Labour MPs to the main debates on the new legislation was limited to a short contribution to the debate on the second reading of the 1909 Bill. The most effective lobby for housing and planning reform was from the municipal authorities themselves, lobbying through both the Association of Municipal Corporations and the National Housing Reform Council. The Land Nationalisation Society, while supporting the work of the National Reform Council, initiated its own municipal housing campaign in 1902. The Workman's National Housing Council carried out its own lobbying on the new Bill, seeking to revisit some of the issues raised in its previous attempts to revise housing legislation.
