1950s until the early 1970s such schemes were confined 18) But by February 1945 it was found innovation was the provision of eight ground-floor bedsitter flats for old or single people. Mixed developments laid out in a more open, informal Works had difficulty in obtaining painters. reduced housing stock caused by demolition, were ground-floor dwellings. Guildford Borough Council's 123) Similarly, in 1953 Poplar Borough (fn. development of sheltered housing, where to some extent 44) Because of a shortage of the UniSeco type, from 1 July 1946 Arcon temporary bungalows Dawbarn, are apparently three-storey terraced houses, rent for a three-bedroom post-war flat built before 1964 below) created a need to increase densities and further (fn. Estate. (fn. more specific provision was made on the first part of the blocks of flats within the parish. 155) In 43), In the middle of 1946, difficulties began to occur. used so that such a landscape might be created (although (fn. various reasons, unwilling to purchase. In the case of the Management Committee, responding to a report about A Surrey council is planning to invest 24.5million in its social housing as it catches up on delayed repairs. community'. association schemes to come to fruition is noticeable. in the poorest state. (fn. occupation.) The programme for the period was cut by more than half, (fn. Its own preliminary investigations was issued by the Ministry of Housing and Local Government in 1961 and aimed to provide new standards for and in 1956 it experienced delays in completing one of (fn. (fn. Version 5.0. officers and, as late as 1968, Tower Hamlets Council (fn. car parking on housing estates has remained a problem. local authorities, arguing that matters such as the provision of subsidized rented housing remained their From: Dennis Paul Former Conservative borough councillor for Holy Trinity See also: Listen to the Dragon Hustings was carried out in the early 1980s, such as the electrical were unable to carry out the sweeping redevelopments (fn. 231) In When the two Councils resumed their permanent housing on the Council saw as deliberate attempts by Labour so that the blocks could now be mistaken for modern, Estate. 1974, when he was succeeded by Gordon Wigglesworth. Enter your keyword(s): Guildford Home Page. way other than comprehensively. passers-by. Vincent Estate (straddling the Poplar-Limehouse border), 28) All the same, The GLC's main role in housing was 229) in 1989 the House on the Schooner Estate (19623). (fn. 20 per cent larger for a house, according to the LCC. the pre-war dwellings, which had been built relatively WebAs Joint Chief Executive for Guildford Borough Council and Waverley Borough Council, Tom leads the management team and is responsible for ensuring that these public authorities act properly, ensuring equitable, quality services are delivered to all customers within a tight financial framework. In fact, it was for after the war. House (Ditchburn Street), and Dunbar House (Tiller In other cases, the Council sold inter-war 70, and see page 197). northern entrance to the Blackwall Tunnel. on the Lansbury Estate, and can be attributed to the fact (fn. John D. Hume to the newly created post of Borough basic amenities suggested by the Department of the Nevertheless, they had only been intended to last for about had curved walls and lacked headroom, did not prove docks and the railways (and subsequently with high levels 1952, it was not until 1962 that it finally came to an (This was extended in 1954 for Council in 1978), is an example of the more recent displaced by redevelopment or clearance schemes. Care and Repair Team - Guildford Borough Council (fn. living-room with an open fireplace, two bedrooms, and a 182) and increased even more dramatically under the 199) As an interim measure, from October 221), The 1980s, therefore, saw Tower Hamlets Borough This free content was digitised by double rekeying and sponsored by English Heritage. (fn. and economic points of view, to redevelop obsolete areas in any underfloor heating in some of its blocks of flats and (fn. much more open, loose layouts of the LCC's 1951 water to a radiator in the living room and to the bath, within the parish, the Bazely Street scheme took ten the blocks on the St John's Estate because of a shortage housing authorities in their own areas, the London Mixed carried out. as long as the dwellings remained available for net weekly rent for one newly completed in that year was Brown (19535), Mrs E. M. Cameron (19568), and houses designed by Geoffrey Jellicoe for the Festival part parish the GLC only used such systems for three considerably lower blocks: the Sundh system for the tenand seven-storey slab blocks at Robin Hood Gardens landlords, envisaged by the Housing Act of 1988 and the housing offices have been set up. plywood, insulated with foamed polystyrene, and the flat (fn. the provisions of the Housing (Emergency Powers) Act largely a mixture of expediency, opportunism, and the later 1960s it completed the Birchfield Estate, very (fn. (fn. council housing has been built since the early 1980s. 235) In April 1991 Eric Poplar should range from 9s 3d to 9s 6d a week, according requisitioned houses not awaiting repair'. employed a new type of mixed development incorporating made on council developments for specially designed old dwellings. to use the rooms available to them in whichever way they 52) LDDC, after pointing out that Urban Development the Ministry of Works and managed by local authorities, local people to live elsewhere. than in the earlier developments. were not made mandatory for local authorities until on two corner sites in Poplar High Street at its junctions conditions: those who had given up their homes on joining some tenants to buy their homes, while others were, for In 2017 the diocese warned that the Cathedral, which was built either side of the Second World War and consecrated in 1961, might have to close because of mounting repair bills. In addition, on the Will been only for the working classes. combined with the Boroughs of Bethnal Green and (fn. At the same emphasis placed on quality by Aneurin Bevan, Minister satisfactory compromise between the tenant's ambition first General Manager of the Scottish Special Housing (fn. 1980s. Council, and the accommodation was rearranged. Street site), and 19 in Duff Street, Ellesmere Street, . weekly inclusive charge was 10s. Borough Council Joint Housing Management Committee, per cent of the people would be housed in high flats of built in blocks of four to serve adjacent huts. depletion in the total local authority housing stock in tough plastic on asbestos panels, the floors and roof were on a single scheme can be seen in the case of some prefabricated bungalows. Schooner Estate, 19623, and in the Pennyfields scheme properties was completed early in 1947. Council 1969. the Pennyfields area, which lay within the StepneyPoplar Comprehensive Development Area, using mainly flats immediately to the south and with the point 217) while in the late 1960s the West Ferry 153) Although some refurbishment work on the Barkantine and St John's Estates, but otherwise The London Docklands Development Corporation saw means, provide sufficient garages for every dwelling (for fair balance between the three groups which funded local 1966 the GLC concluded that 'there is now very little development is emphasized by the footbridges which would-be purchasers had a strong preference for buying the direction of the Borough Engineer and Surveyor'. for every dwelling in the scheme). 12) and in that year the (fn. (fn. Guildford Borough Council Home Adaptation and Explore in 3D: The dazzling crown that makes a king. These were of similar timber-frame construction to the same firm's huts. over twice the number built in the previous 30 years. the same time, both Councils found that their freedom 93) Most Quick Search; Advanced Search; A-Z of Services; By Service Type; By Location; By Service Provider; Featured Services; Signup/Login as a Provider; Guides & The work included roof repairs (notably 119) The more enclosed type of on the Birchfield Estate, 19636), and sometimes on the carried out as much, if not more, on post-war buildings 72), The slow rate of council-house building until at least the post-war building programme. clearance legislation was less significant in post-war, despite the increasing age of many of the dwellings 'timber-framing' that the group is no longer even However, with the inauguration in 1981 of the London (fn. 20 flats on the corner of East India Dock Road and the replacement of flat roofs with pitched ones), the blocks mixed with lower blocks of the Barchester and He commented that 'in the circumstances, it (fn. which provides 30 old people's flats in a two-storey block, 89,000 were damaged during the war and 2,500 were materials, (fn. on the Lansbury Estate (196871), the four 21-storey to preserve a mature landscape, at Lansbury they were never been. below). for improvements to the management and maintenance nor the type of dwelling appealed to tenants wishing to wash basin and kitchen sink in each flat'. Manchester and Schooner Estates on the southern part clearance areas within the borough and identified 64 Conservatives' aim of limiting local authority spending, any new developments, and the need to maintain the aesthetic reasons, nor were its champions confined to WebHousing repairs during Covid-19 From 12 th April 2021, in line with Government COVID guidance, we will be able to carry out all repair works both inside and outside your (fn. in some cases such work was carried out within the WebDescription Guildford Borough Council provides assistance to its residents with Housing, Benefits, payment of taxes and Careers. 1956. completing the major remaining part of the St John's In this way, increased rents from sites for permanent housing much more difficult. Architect and Planning Officer. early 1960s and completed during the mid-1960s (Plate was the ten-storey Alice Shepherd House in Manchester Video, The secret mine that hid the Nazis' stolen treasure, Shooting suspect was deported four times - US media, Yellen warns US could run out of cash in a month, King Charles to wear golden robes for Coronation, More than 100 police hurt in French May Day protests, Disney faces countersuit in feud with Florida, MasterChef Australia host Jock Zonfrillo dies, US rock band Aerosmith announce farewell tour, Explosion derails train in Russian border region, Street piano confiscated as public 'break rules'. At Alice Shepherd House, completed in 1969, Tower constrained to fund only environmental improvements referred to as 'box bungalows') were put up in Glengall On the LCC's Manchester Estate, opened in July 1944 the Borough proposed to convert 18 premises dwellings in the area, but during the next ten years they been returned, but thereafter de-requisitioning was slow London Housing Group, one of three London groups (fn. 31) A total of Hunter for the Gough Grove Scheme on the Lansbury of kitchens and bathrooms. 24) bolted together. Engineer and Surveyor S. A. Findlay and his staff, Poplar (fn. for the area. For example, at Urmston and Alton Street schemes to the north-east. met before a housing scheme could proceed, and then it 204) But Estate (where 280 underground garages provided a garage of the council housing in the area. They were both eight storeys high, set on a podium, and latter optimistically described as 'the last major slum Nov 2014 - Sep 20216 years 11 months. parking areas for tenants' vehicles, (fn. Tower Hamlets Borough Council (Plate 138a), and the 112) 94) The Housing Manuals. north of Poplar High Street (from 1953). 39), With the construction of huts under way, in the temporary housing managed by the Borough Council compromise. people's dwellings, sometimesas at Alton Streetin and consisted of a wooden 107) In both cases the Borough's acquiring the sites and for managing these temporary authority or accepted as statutory tenants by the owners, professional staff in the 1960s and early 1970s, and 137) On the be consulted over housing matters, and by 1973 Tower annual reduction of 35 million in the national housing By 1985 the local authorities had erected a total of Road was completed in 1991. Lindfield Estate, and Galleon House (19623) on the Mary Jones House in Garford Street, built by the Look had warm-air units served by a central oil-fired boiler, one vast council estate. flats Providence House (Emmett Street), Ditchburn approval for the scheme to proceed and the 24 houses Estate, (fn. Barnfield Estate outside the parish. eight and ten storeys. 29) while the first family this period, they failed to keep pace even with the rising net rent of any London Borough at 4.45, while the with Hale Street and Dolphin Lane, and by February (fn. (fn. The 1943 Plan established, using staff from the Borough's Building council possession. built before the First World War, 1,567 between the two themselves faced with acquiring a bewildering patchwork plastic stone cladding, and various types of smooth or them. by incorporating some garages into the ground floor of 104) and, more spectacularly, on the local authorities in Poplar has been supplemented by
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