The Warrington-Runcorn Development Committee commissioned this music in early 1979 as the soundtrack of a short film to publicise the work of the Committee in providing a thriving cultural life for the residents of the new estates of Warrington and Runcorn. Excerpts were shown later that year on BBC’s Nationwide.
1979 marked a change in the political and wider culture of British society. The Warrington-Runcorn development marks the swan song of post-war urban planning in the UK – soon, the ethos of building better communities would be replaced by Thatcherite “no such thing as society” greed. And look where that got us.
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