 On 27 April 1944 Sir Patrick Abercrombie 's Plan for Plymouth to rebuild the bomb @-@ damaged city was published ; it called for demolition of the few remaining pre @-@ War buildings in the city centre to make way for their replacement with wide , parallel , modern boulevards aligned east – west linked by a north – south avenue ( Armada Way ) linking the railway station with the vista of Plymouth Hoe . A peripheral road system connecting the historic Barbican on the east and Union Street to the west determines the principal form of the city centre , even following pedestrianisation of the shopping centre in the late 1980s , and continues to inform the present ' Vision for Plymouth ' developed by a team led by Barcelona @-@ based architect David MacKay in 2003 which calls for revivification of the city centre with mixed @-@ use and residential . In suburban areas , post @-@ War <unk> had already begun to appear by 1946 , and over 1 @,@ 000 permanent council houses were built each year from 1951 – 57 according to the Modernist zoned low @-@ density garden city model advocated by Abercrombie . By 1964 over 20 @,@ 000 new homes had been built , more than 13 @,@ 500 of them permanent council homes and 853 built by the Admiralty . Plymouth is home to 28 parks with an average size of 45 @,@ 638 square metres ( 491 @,@ 240 sq ft ) . Its largest park is Central Park , with other sizeable green spaces including Victoria Park , Freedom Fields Park , Alexandra Park , Devonport Park and the Hoe . 
