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houses. This means lower costs as less bitumen, piping and cabling is needed to service the homes. In major
Radburn areas such as Mt Druitt in Sydney the current Housing NSW are selling off many of their properties as they pass their economical maintenance life and begin to cost more than they are worth. Other properties, particularly the blocks of flats often housing the less affluent and educated are being demolished and new medium density developments built in their place. These are being given to the aged and (specifically migrant) families rather than the former residents, many of whom were on parole or being reintroduced to the general community after treatment for various psychiatric disorders.
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where it was one of a number of factors leading to serious social problems on the estate. In New South Wales the then
Housing Commission used the Radburn concept in numerous new estates built in the mid to late 1960s and early 1970s. Many of the medium density dwellings are being 'turned around' by
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Wilmington Way Estate was designed on Radburn principles, which "resulted in an absence of properly overlooked streets and encouraged crime and anti-social behaviour". The estate was demolished and rebuilt in a different layout between 2010 and 2013 (the original layout then being considered
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It is often referred to as an urban design experiment that is typified by failure because of its laneways being used as common entries and exits to the houses, helping to isolate communities and to encourage crime. There have been efforts to 'de-Radburn' or demolish some
Radburn designed public
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The lane ways have long been a problem giving local youth a place to hide and evade motorized police patrols while launching raids into homes virtually unobserved. One benefit of this plan not often mentioned is that it allows for narrower streets in the cul-de-sacs that serve the backs of the
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Planning for new towns built for the iron ore industry in
Australia in the late 1960s was also heavily influenced by Radburn principles. They included South Hedland, Dampier, Shay Gap (now demolished) and Karratha.
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which clustered four residential neighbourhoods around a commercial core. The design was quickly considered a failure by residents and government authorities and abandoned in 1974. Other examples include
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neighbourhood, one of the seven planned neighbourhoods, was partly designed using the
Radburn model. The Stanshawe Estate (at one time the largest private estate in Europe), in the south-west of
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has stated that "the problems associated with the layout of the New
Meadows Radburn style layout... contribute to the anti-social behaviour and crime in the area." However, councillors in
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home demolition scheme being developed, it was realised that a significant number of the houses treated with loose asbestos, and thus affected, were in the
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have suggested the reputation is unfair, instead blaming negative press coverage and unfavourable views towards incomers from London following slum clearances.
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