ABSTRACT
The Corporation announced also that it was to build a group of fifteen unit factories, each of about 1,800 sq ft, to be let mainly to small firms vacating premises in London, or firms engaged in sub-contract work for the bigger concerns in Stevenage. The Rector of Stevenage, the Rev. E.W.B. Cordingly, was appointed to Board and his presence was felt in the Corporation’s Annual Report: The outstanding feature of the year has been growing social cohesion of the town. Construction workers were at this time most concerned about the future availability of employment, particularly as the Government had the previous August called for ‘restraint’. The Stevenage building workers decided in February 1962 to demonstrate and march to the Town Square in order to coincide with a meeting of the Corporation and Union officials. The Corporation also reported that its 95 per cent mortgage scheme which had commenced in January 1961 was, as expected, increasing the number of houses sold to tenants.
