ABSTRACT
Apart from the necessity for a good local pool of labour, estates should be near to, or on, a main road and have a railway siding available for the minority of factories who need it. There should be adequate supplies of water, gas and electricity. Flat sites are preferable to -hilly ones because of the savings in constructional work on roads, services and foundations. For a large estate probably the most satisfactory layout is a series of more or less rectangular blocks bounded on all sides by roads. Few industries are static for any length of time and factories are always being added to or altered. The least architecturally successful are those built out of Royal Ordnance Factories. One of the biggest advantages of trading estates is that their size makes possible the provision of various forms of social and other services on a scale which would otherwise be impossible to any but the largest of individual factories.
