 In May 1938, Sir Charles Bressey and Sir Edwin Lutyens published a Ministry of Transport report, "The Highway Development Survey, 1937", which reviewed London's road needs and recommended the construction of many miles of new roads and the improvement of junctions at key congestion points.Amongst their proposals was the provision of a series of orbital roads around the city with the outer ones built as American-style "Parkways" – wide, landscaped roads with limited access and grade-separated junctions.Bressey's plans called for significant demolition of existing properties, that would have divided communities if they had been built.