In the period between the wars a strange new landscape feature crept across the British landscape; it was a built environment that has many names-not all complimentary! Plotlands, track & shack, hutments, shanty towns; old army huts and railway carriage homes; today we use the term 'Landscapes of informal settlement'...to avoid upsetting the owners! At the same time suburbia in a more usual form was also on the rise with Tudor-Bethan styles to the fore. This talk looks at these two contrasting housing types and their effect on the landscape."