Savage Crescent is Palmerston North’s first major state housing area. This presentation by former City Archivist Lesley Courtney, Policy Planner Greg Vossler and Senior Planner Keegan Aplin-Thane covers the Labour government’s promise to provide state housing in 1936 and the subsequent completion of the complex; community conservation of the area in the 1980s and 1990s as a heritage site, from planning and design through to management; and how oversight of the Savage Crescent portfolio works through to present day.
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Walkshop: Savage Crescent
Image: New Zealand Government. (1947). Evans Family, 5 Mansford Place, [Photograph]. 2010N_A175-67-1_004195, Manawatū Heritage
