Agent TypeOrganisationActivities & OccupationsProfessional organisationsHistoryOriginally known as Town and Country Planning and Parks Association, it was formed in Melbourne in 1914, with Dr J.W. (later Sir James Barrett as its first President. The name was later changed to the Town and Country Planning Association. Its objects were "to give the town a bit of the country, and the country a bit of the town, to secure better housing, to protect existing parks, to safeguard native animals and plants and erect memorials to explorers". The Association adopted a new constitution and was incorporated in 1994. It is Victoria's oldest community organisation for the advocacy of urban and rural planning.
Town And Country Planning Association Of Victoria. University of Melbourne Archives, accessed 20/03/2026, https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/61691
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