PLANNING A NEW TOWN. STEVENAGE, London's No.1 satellite town of 60,000 people, is step by step, being complted-on paper. At Aston Hall, the headquarters of the planning staff, architects, engineers, surveyers and clerks have been working for some months, designing housing estates, and planning how trees and other natural amenities can be best preserved. A soil laboratory is busy testing carefully samples of sand, clay and marl drawn from all over the area so that knowledge can be gained for the best sites for houses, roads and bridges etc. Thus the "back-room" boys - and girls - of Stevenage hope to ease the problems of the builders, who will be starting on the houses ect, in the near future, and later of the new residents who, at least should not suffer from badly sited houses, or badly planned estates. This picture is one of a series taken at the planning H.Q. at Aston Hall and the surrounding district of the satellite town and shows:- Town planner Mr R.A.Pisturius, comparing a relief model of the site as it is today with a draft of the master plan. 13-07-49