greenprint
n.— «Papers already submitted to the Burgess Park Steering Group, a joint subcommittee of councillors from the planning and leisure committees, indicate variations on the former GLC greenprint. Early this year when the new leisure and recreation department came into operation, there was a tussle between it and the planning and development department—which had succeeded in retaining the council’s landscape design section—as to which should have control of park development.» —by Bob Smyth Building Design Sept. 11, 1987. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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