12 NOVEMBER 1927, Page 12

A curious difficulty is now confronting the town-planners in the

newly industrial districts of Kent. A delightfully designed mining town, begun two years ago in the neighbour- hood of a new Kent coalmine, has grown rapidly and according to plan. Four hundred houses have been built and many more are required to house the miners needed ; but ease of transport, in association with certain social prejudices and habits, has induced the people for whom the houses were designed to travel long distances to much humbler and less healthy houses in the coast towns. They had liefer dwell among crowds. Such examples of the prevalence of the urban mind are, alas ! not rare in our community.