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South Africa’s draft water-use regulations – which would subject water licences to strict racial quotas – reflect a deeply deficient process, and are in any event ultra vires (outside the accepted powers of the minister), says the Institute of Race Relations (IRR).
Historic â Colchester Co-opâs first branch shop, on the corner of New Town Road and Kendall Road, which has been converted into flats as confirmed by the blue plaque (pictured below) In his first instalment about the history of Colchester’s “New Town Estate”, dating back to 1880, Sir Bob Russell stopped where his tour went from Winnock Road down Charles Street to Kendall Road. His descriptive walk now continues in this second and final instalment. THE New Town Estate, designed by James Goodey, who lived in the centre of his unique development of houses for “all classes” ...
This unique Colchester estate brought classes together in Victorian Britain NEW Town, named in contrast to the “old town” centred primarily inside and near the Roman Wall, is the only part of Colchester designed to accommodate “upper, middle and lower or working classes” - a dominant feature of the structure of class segregated life in Victorian Britain. This comprises around 470 houses built from the 1880s on what had been fields behind older dwellings in Magdalen Street and Military Road (as far as Camp Church) and facing Wimpole Road. Subsequent housing developments in Colche...