Proposed T. B. Village Settlement, Picton Lakes, NSW

A search on something else entirely led me to the June 1927 issue of one of Florence Taylor's publications, Construction and Local Government Journal, and this peculiarity, a proposal for the design of the Picton Lakes Village Settlement for sufferers from tuberculosis. An article in the Picton Post 8 September 1926 (p. 3) discusses a visit to the site where a 'village settlement' is to be constructed and mentions that it is to be based conceptually on Papworth Village Settlement in Cambridgeshire (now Papworth Hospital). The article accompanying, which is a somewhat bald descriptive piece devised mainly around what anyone could tell from looking at the plan (except that which is hard to glean from the digitised microfilm used by Trove) is surely the work of Taylor herself, who never missed a chance to denigrate Canberra whenever she could.

The Sydney Morning Herald announced the competition in retrospect on 6 April 1927 open to 'students of architecture at the University and Technical College'.  Infuriatingly (or is that putting it too strongly) I can find little further evidence of the competition (and unsurprisingly, this plan was never brought into being). But the village did exist, in Couridjah; here's a slightly earlier announcement of building industry involvement in the creation of housing stock, from the Sunday Times of Sydney on the 15 August 1926 (p. 2):

Back to the plan: Duncan McPhee Smith, the winner from 14 entrants, was a twenty-year old Sydney Technical College student employed in the office of John Reid. In fact (we are told in the Picton Post for 22 June 1927, p. 2) Smith won not only the prize for best layout but also separate prizes for an administration block design and a chalet. This item also confirms that the Smith layout involves internal reserves (I count 25 blocks, many of which surely have internal reserves, but it's not entirely sure what each section is coded to represent): 'the architect has arranged... that each home will radiate around a Central Village Green.' 

In 1928, Duncan McPhee Smith graduated and received a travelling scholarship - the Byera Hadley Scholarship - 'to assist the winner in undertaking postgraduate studies in one of the capitals of the Commonwealth, Sydney excepted' (Sydney Morning Herald, 4 August 1928 p. 16). He chose to use these funds to study town planning in Adelaide and died in 1987. 

I'm unsure where the Picton Village was actually located; using South St. Couridjah as a bearing, though, I'm assuming that McPhee Smith's plan was intended to be laid out in this general area.