Author: SCOTT Anthony RN (City Planning Officer)
Title: Langley Moor Local Plan
Description: 1979 Unpaginated (c 80pp), plans, maps, diagrams, some in two colour and fold-out 30x22, comb bound illustrated card covers Covers a little worn, good thus. Langley Moor is a small former mining village just outside the city of Durham, and was one of the infamous 'Category D' settlements in the post-war Durham County Council Development Plan. These were mostly former industrial villages that were to receive no public investment - in effect, they were to be left to slowly expire. Local Government reorganisation in 1974 made the City of Durham Council the planning authority, and a different approach was quickly adopted. In particular the City wanted planning to be something that was done 'with' local people, not 'to' them. This is, along with a plan for Coxhoe, one of the first results: a detailed assessment of the village, drafted in very close consultation with the people who lived there. Not just a detailed and interesting summary of this small settlement, but also a record of a different and perhaps more enlightened way of approaching planning.

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