The Birmingham suburb of Bournville, which experts say offers an important vision of how settlements should be built, combines the modern and the deeply traditional.

In summer, cricketers battle it out on extensive playing fields in front of a factory that remains a key productive asset of the multinational company Cadbury Schweppes. Children at the local primary school, who are increasingly mixed ethnically, receive a yearly visit from the founder of both the business and the village, in the form of a volunteer dressed as George Cadbury.