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The inter-war period was one of rapid growth in Bristol, with 22,000 private homes and 12,000 council houses being built around the city. In addition, Bristol was at the focus of a number of through routes, with growing volumes of traffic concentrated into a highly constrained area in the city centre. To address this, in 1923 the city council set up a town planning committee chaired by B F Brueton, which developed into the Bristol and Bath and District Joint Regional Planning Committee. Brueton co-authored Sir Patrick Abercrombie's 'Bristol and Bath Regional Planning Study' of 1928, out of which the plan to ease Bristol's traffic congestion using concentric ring roads grew.

The 1952 Development Plan, published to meet Bristol's obligations under the The Town and Country Planning Act of 1947, was mostly concerned with identifying Comprehensive Development Areas and contained fairly modest proposals for increasing traffic capacity, beyond completing the Inner Circuit Road.