Necessary Amendments: Homes for the people is a new film that was made between 2018 and 2020 In three locations: The Gibberd garden in Harlow, Brooke House in Basildon, and The Cockaigne houses at The Ryde in Hatfield. All are post-war British ‘new towns’

The film is a modest attempt to represent people who live somewhere ‘new’ which of course in most cases is now far from new. How do people feel about where they live? What are their hopes for the future? This is supplemented by historic material from Frederick Gibbard’s archive alongside footage of the volunteer archivists who are custodians of this material.

The decision to work directly with residents and volunteers arose out of lack of material and information found in the extensive records of British new town developments. The homes may be for the people, but their voices are conspicuously absent in this history.

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