
RTPI president, Dr Wei Yang and chief executive, Victoria Hills with the sculpture of Sir Ebenezer Howard CREDIT: Tom Hampson Wei Yang, RTPI president, said: “It was my great pleasure to visit Welwyn Garden City with our chief executive Victoria Hills to officially congratulate the garden city’s centenary celebration on behalf of the Royal Town Planning Institute.



The day ended with a visit to Sir Ebenezer Howard’s grave where Wei Yang laid flowers in his honour. The urban planner, who was the first honorary member of the RTPI, was also responsible Letchworth Garden City and was the founder of the wider garden city movement.Īfter meeting Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council’s chief executive Ka Ng, council leader Tony Kingsbury and others, Wei and Victoria made their way to 15 miles north to Letchworth Garden City.ĭuring their visit to Letchworth Garden City Wei and Victoria toured the town centre and attended a tree planting ceremony with Pam Burn, chair of Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation and North Hertfordshire District Council chair, Val Bryant. Wei and Victoria’s tour included a visit to a new sculpture of Sir Ebenezer Howard who designed the town in 1920. The RTPI president, Dr Wei Yang FRTPI, and chief executive, Victoria Hills MRTPI, toured Welwyn Garden City alongside Tony Skottowe, chair of the Welwyn Garden City Heritage Trust. The Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) recently celebrated the centenary of Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire one of the world’s first garden cities, with a visit to the Hertfordshire town. Submitted by The Royal Town Planning Institute If you are having any difficulty please get in touch with our Customer Service team who will be happy to help.RTPI president, Dr Wei Yang FRTPI with the sculpture of Sir Ebenezer Howard CREDIT: Tom Hampson Our recently released Garden Journal was the first phase of the work to remove Flash, and it runs on smartphones and tablets as well as computers however it was only recently that the capabilities of all browsers reached the performance level we require to re-write the Garden Planner and it's a big project.įor now, most browsers require Flash Player to be enabled or unblocked, even if it’s correctly installed.
#The garden planner software
(Adobe Flash Player is computer software that runs within your Internet browser, and is used by the current version of the Garden Planner.) Please be assured that the new version will be bigger and better, and available well in advance of Flash support ending. You may have heard that Adobe Flash Player is being disabled at the end of this year, and been concerned about the future of the Garden Planner. If you are interested in joining our group of beta testers then please get in touch with our Customer Service team.

If you are already a subscriber then we’ll keep you updated in our regular newsletters. Support for mobile devices will follow next year.Īll plans and subscriptions will be automatically carried over to the new Garden Planner, so don’t worry - you'll be able to continue working on your existing plans in the new version.
#The garden planner full version
Within the next few months we will be releasing the beta version for testing, with the full version following later for PC and Mac.
#The garden planner plus
This will have a fresh, modern interface and all the features you use will still be there, plus several enhancements. Exciting news! Following on from our recently-released Garden Journal, our team is hard at work on an ALL NEW version of the Garden Planner.
