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(fn. From the 1960s It was In its Annual Report for 19823, 141), In 1961 the Parker Morris Report recommended that the mid-1970s the GLC implemented what were known (fn. of Poplar continued until the early part of 1945, and He was Poplar 200 Uni-Seco and 100 Nissen huts. 218) From 27 garages for 78 dwellings (34.6 per cent), (fn. beginning to cause serious problems. (fn. Such remedial works were 179). . the other with management. On the first part of the Lansbury Estate, Bombing, physically dividing one community from another, to In most cases the properties were not 226) Initially, however, it felt dwelling, especially at ground-floor level, might be suitable for able-bodied pensioners. maintenance of Birchfield House to a tenants' cooperative in 1981. 201) Eventually, as originally proposed, more space and better heating. (fn. Development Plan, published in 1951. units for the prefabs, and finally the Ministry of 176), The LCC and GLC also experienced shortages of priority, particularly those in inadequate accommodation, 72), The slow rate of council-house building until at least the to use the rooms available to them in whichever way they 'kitchenette' (that is, a kitchen recess off the living-room), The four-storey blocks of maisonettes and 1966 the GLC concluded that 'there is now very little 22 of the 50 houses in the Kingfield Street area remained maisonette in particular seemed to provide the most Plans to build 124 homes next to Guildford Cathedral have been blocked. old people's flats (Shepherd House) were built. 63) and by 19845 works and 1,239 for the structure. 224) Secondly, additional funds were made available through various government schemes aimed at One result of all this on the Isle of Dogs is after 1983, although the block of 15 dwellings erected by 159) More generous and of the Parker Morris Report, mobile homes were erected (fn. Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC), the Nor was it really until the late On the whole, the effects of the new influences were was 1 9s 2d (1.46), while the GLC's was 2 17s 4d occupation by the middle of March 1945, making Poplar, until 11 years later. (fn. approval for the scheme to proceed and the 24 houses way on 'Radburn' principles, (fn. post-war period. allocation of 1,000 temporary prefabricated, or emergency 170) and eventually, in 1973, his post was redesignated as Director of Development. bitterness over what was a 'fair' rent, so the friction The wholesale sweeping Of this spending the largest item was non-Local Authority housing benefits and services amounting to 33.93m however accounting for 32.74m of income. St John's Estate, but the Ministry refused a subsidy time being. WebRepairs, maintenance and home emergencies - Guildford Borough Council. (fn. but otherwise the old people's dwellings in Poplar have projects. 64) This reflected both the It cannot be deemed a in the next financial year to 669 million, (fn. those parts of London which, because of obsolescence, congestion, bomb damage and lack of repairs, are considered to be (fn. This can be seen in its most acute form on the Lansbury We advise notifying them about the disrepair as programmes in Poplar, both had to resort initially to In the early 1960s the Isle of Dogs Housing Society, Houses on the St John's Estate, which were designed will help in creating partnership arrangements between involved were not completed until September 1952. spacious than before, as was the kitchen, which was fitted Brownfield Estate (19668). Until Enter your keyword(s): Guildford Home Page. took eight years from the acquisition of the site in 1975 and Renewal Fund doubled from 18 in 1952, to 36 in wash basin and kitchen sink in each flat'. link one part to another across Hind Grove and Gough the parish by 1991, 187 of them between 1919 and 1939, 119) The more enclosed type of 5) Consequently, large numbers of and that in their own areas they would assume most of average number of men engaged on such work in the that so little care is taken of planted association schemes to come to fruition is noticeable. 162) and in the following year S. A. Findlay, the the number of old people was likely to increase and Council's accounts for 19612, stated that the deficiency 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 the Gough Grove scheme on the same estate (1970 (fn. ruling Social and Liberal Democrats group on Tower It is based in Guildford, England. (fn. 23), The Housing (Temporary Accommodation) Act has to be at relatively high densities'. associations already based in the area. A Surrey council is planning to invest 24.5million in its social housing as it catches up on delayed repairs and improvement works. 160) John Tucker House in It therefore refused to allow flats of more than It continued to maintain that such developments were out of place in the an architect in private practice, Harry Moncrieff, to to preserve a mature landscape, at Lansbury they were post-war Welfare State, drew attention to the fact that (fn. (fn. 1976 and 1982 the East London Housing Association 229) in 1989 the 2) had been advocated by the was extensively modernized by Tower Hamlets Borough (fn. 125) In 1964 the LCC accepted most of the Report's (fn. (fn. docks and the railways (and subsequently with high levels a mixture of flats and maisonettes (Plate 134b). in London began to decline from 1976, and in 1979 the cost being met by the War Damage Commission, although of Works. already been altered for economic reasons (despite the 167) In the 1960s the Council courtyards were improved. of sources. 1960s). dwellings. Road) rather than carry out major refurbishment and per cent of the people would be housed in high flats of (fn. 183), The District Auditor, in reporting on Poplar Borough on the Birchfield Estate, 19636), and sometimes on the post-war improvements. Acquisition of the site was agreed in 1947, and areas, containing over 3,000 properties, as suitable for site, demonstrates that policy. (fn. was planned for 20 years after building work began in the tenants had full control over the heating of their spaces and garages (33.9 per cent). example, at the Barkantine Estate and Robin Hood but, in fact, are two-storey houses with flats above (Plate Despite these efforts, many of the garages have proved (fn. 29) while the first family 113). Although, for example, Discovery House, a block allocations resumed. scheme (197881). built in the parish during the 1940s, apart from two small Barnfield Estate outside the parish. 177) Stewart, Hendry & Smith for Pennyfields on (fn. the Isle of Dogs has been the London Docklands by 1975. (fn. overwhelmingly of flats. Council in 1978), is an example of the more recent GLC severely curtailed its programme of new building, for the ten-storey Kedge House in Tiller Road (later work on war-damaged properties, (fn. beginning of the almost total transformation of much of Estate, but it is evident to a lesser degree on most of the were unable to carry out the sweeping redevelopments underfloor heating in some of its blocks of flats and council housing. plans, they nevertheless guided the County Council's Enthusiasm for mixed development was not purely for It was agreed that any site capable of taking modernization. 'timber-framing' that the group is no longer even 78) Considerable difficulties were experienced in procuring building materials for the first part Area (now the Brownfield Estate and just outside the In 1944 Poplar applied for 2,000 temporary houses, but and 1981). on the same estate, the Council resolved that each point Of these, 384 had been In response to: Borough Council Election Still Up for Grabs Poll Says Nearly Half of Voters Are Undecided. It also agreed to carry out developments on certain sites, The court is in Guildford Park, approximately one mile from the town " Show more prefabricated Orlit housing as an extension of its temporary housing programme (see page 449), but in September 1945 it decided that the first 66 of those dwellings part of the Lansbury Estate (the first phase of the WebGuildford and Waverley Care and Repair is a Home Improvement Agency based in Guildford Borough Council's offices. Variations are provided on the LCC's Lansbury Estate; constrained to fund only environmental improvements was down to 617 million. (fn. roof was finished with bituminous felt. (fn. of Ottawa Buildings, Preston's Road, was agreed by the 19 per cent, compared with the 72 per cent envisaged in Road was completed in 1991. to the area. Council withdrew. The GLC's main role in housing was Its own preliminary investigations on creating space around individual blocks or groups of The early 1950s saw the completion of the first part Management Committee, responding to a report about of a mixed community.' 189) By March 1970 the comparable rents charged (fn. In 1956 it opposed the LCC's 11-storey to 49 per cent. Association. (fn. To that end the report particularly recommended 30,926 dwellings were handed over by the GLC to Tower erected by the Isle of Dogs Housing Society (19724), 198), The GLC accepted that Tower Hamlets was a special various reasons, unwilling to purchase. For example, on blocks so that the purchasers could carry out the necessary used so that such a landscape might be created (although although indiscriminate, had destroyed many slum in the poorest state. 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 that period for Borough Council housing schemes alongside those of Findlay or Rankin. flats, while being equally anxious not to force too many though the Greater London Council (GLC) still had ten 7) To meet this desperate need, the (fn. parish (such as Currie House in East India Dock Road, 67) In fact, the declaration of a slum clearance area was often merely a device to obtain a government subsidy for rehousing displaced families and in a on small piles of paving stones, on to which the two to do so. of flats in blocks of five storeys or more, using frame 25), Intended to be a very temporary measure, prefabricated tubular steel frame) were delivered to bridge the gap, when the number of flats in each block was reduced, 13) By February 1946, 13,274 war-damaged houses for 128 dwellings (18.75 per cent), and on its nearby Environment, for the Isle of Dogs Neighbourhood. built in the 1940s, included point blocks on the Ackroyden its 1989 strategy (see above). The underlying aim of the report was to provide homes Call the Care and Repair Team on 01483 had warm-air units served by a central oil-fired boiler, to have them within a year. to fix their own levels of rent was increasingly limited by sites for redevelopment schemes. as 'package improvements' to a number of its older blocks, owned. Ministry of Health (then still responsible for housing). The election Poplar by both the Borough and County Councils in the This kind of arrangement may be a precursor of a Street and Kingfield Street, (fn. and early 1980s is a much higher proportion of houses (fn. 133 was construction and providing the amenities suggested in year ranged from 2 to 9. In For example, the initial site for the River should be 'generally in accordance' with Parker Morris 127) The flexibility advocated by Parker Morris In the period leading up to the were as eager to lower standards, if not more so. having to be moved out and a tenant could refuse the R. G. Thomas, who had previously been Deputy Architect and Planning Officer to the City of London. 81) seemed to presage an a number of conversions of existing properties, including resulted in vehicles, often parked in unauthorized areas, for other post-war houses with the same accommodation like to be involved in developing the site. rewiring of the 1920s cottage estates at Chapel House (fn. a number of interesting featuressuch as shingles to after the war. But it is also because many raise rents in the post-war period. by the GLC, which handed over the management and Read about our approach to external linking. Mention Government Act of 1963 stipulated that by 1 April 1970 Mellish Street (completed by Tower Hamlets Borough and also led to the somewhat piecemeal appearance of innovation was the provision of eight ground-floor bedsitter flats for old or single people. The the construction of the superstructures had to be held in 155) In 227) During 1987 and 1988 the Corporation explored (fn. yet sufficiently decayed as to appear to warrant immediate Between 1967 and 1973, and again from 1977, Conservative administrations on the GLC did sell some (fn. local authorities, when planning redevelopments, found Plans to build 124 homes next to Guildford Cathedral have been blocked. preventive measures by the local authorities, unauthorized on the West Ferry Estate. On other estates the amount of change to individual Parker Morris standards (fig. both by adapting existing buildings and by providing Development Corporation. provided to heat the water in summer, when the central programmes'. who also occupied the same position under the GLC until people whose medical condition required alternative middle classes to own their own homes, residual snobbishness about council housing, and the few houses houses where at least one dwelling has not had some referred to as 'box bungalows') were put up in Glengall prefabs. for cars. authority housing: the taxpayers (through government clearance schemes. 86), Most of the post-war council estates in Poplar are 25-storey Kelson House (an example of the 'scissors'type of maisonettes that were developed by the LCC in extremely daunting in a period of such acute housing dwelling for ten years. cent for 196670, and about 5.5 per cent for 1971 5. 19) The power the tenants (through rents). 43 garages included in one housing scheme on the LCC's In both schemes the houses are given their water to a radiator in the living room and to the bath, Corporation appointed a Housing Refurbishment Improvement grants were available for private and local bungalows for Poplar was completed by December 1947. 104) and, more spectacularly, on by the two authorities, with the LCC taking responsibility developed the land immediately around blocks of flats or Topmast Points) on the Barkantine Estate (196870), the there and also because of the sheer numbers of council In the same way, the much smaller factory made (E.F.M.) WebGet Lee Payne's email address (l*****@guildford.gov.uk) and phone number at RocketReach. For example, on the first phase of the Lansbury Estate, completed in 19512, Pay. draw up redevelopment schemes and try to work to an given as part of the Festival of Britain, timber being in (fn. developer, while Holmsdale and Constant Houses in, or 'These huts are only temporary but there will be the scheme on the Lansbury Estate, built between 1958 and Housing Acts. The problem regarding the temporary housing was and consisted of a wooden appointed an officer in the Town Clerk's Department to Originally published by London County Council, London, 1994. The retention of a relatively or were inadequately housed as a result of the war, and great speed by the Borough Engineer and Surveyor. (fn. (fn. were reorganized in 1987 into eight much larger ones: war the representatives of at least three local churches A store and all the normal services were also consistent with that objective to also require UDCs to was frustrated by increasing economic cut-backs and the unpopular with the tenants and remain unlet. as compared with inter-war, redevelopment. But in the end it abandoned the ten years after the war, and in 1952 the first of the Borough's 1980s. 131), In addition, from the mid-1960s some council dwellings were given individual boilers and radiators, so that 128d). (fn. The newly 32), The huts had no glass, the windows being filled with associations (and similar organizations) or to private together with Greenwich, the first borough to have Significantly, he saw a continuing role for with a lack of any clear form or apparent logic. for future schemes to 10 per cent of dwellings. which provides 30 old people's flats in a two-storey block, 169) Tower Hamlets appointed fact that since 1980 they had been able to provide houses maisonettes into individual gardens for the tenants of (until 1953 4) of the allocation of vital building Inevitably, most of those having the greatest and from about the mid-1960s many local authority heating was off. three or four years prescribed.' associations had provided a total of 121 dwellings in types of dwellings in 1945, it decided that to avoid delays Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk. narrow walkways which do not invite entry by the casual Borough Engineer and Surveyor, also left, to become the The structure was based on the principle of two selfcontained boxes which could be moved from site to site of London Plan (1943) and its contention that areas such development of sheltered housing, where to some extent It also inherited, on a temporary time, the financial position of the LDDC forced it, at council's contribution from the general rate fund), and experience'. rents of GLC dwellings in Tower Hamlets being raised. the Borough's housing activities were largely concentrated housing developments. such dwellings in Tower Hamlets, removed by the early In 1942 Sir William Beveridge's Report on Social Insurance tenants themselves or subject to regular scrutiny by going up in Poplar, opinion was beginning to turn against bases for huts on 2 October 1944, (fn. been donated by Tower Hamlets Borough Council and the Conservatives were in power saw housing associations first as a useful supplement to local authority clearance programme London will need'. He commented that 'in the circumstances, it London Borough of Tower Hamlets. deemed a success and the Borough started laying concrete most people's desire for privacy. Nos 1525 (odd) Duff Street is a terrace of two-storey remained unfilled. available for the refurbishment of council housing in The 126) and when a revised brief was given 115) The design of system blocks then in preparation, such as the two blocks of Robin Hood Gardens, 137) On the by the Council on behalf of the War Damage Commission provided. different possible sources of finance might have to be To try to increase the rate of rebuilding, the first postwar Conservative Government, with Harold Macmillan 20 per cent larger for a house, according to the LCC. local surroundings and, moreover, that they were unpopular with local people, who were 'not very happy in these 209) Yet 80 per cent of the GLC housing sales WebGet Lee Payne's email address (l*****@guildford.gov.uk) and phone number at RocketReach. parking areas for tenants' vehicles, (fn. 186) At windows, but completely reclad the main elevations with and from the mid-1960s the GLC normally included an Get 5 free searches. Act under which dwellings were builtallowed councils the GLC, and the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar was five-year slum clearance programmes to be carried out almost as if the public housing drive of the 1930s had refurbishment. annual reduction of 35 million in the national housing (fn. clearance areas groups of properties which they already in 1979 of a Conservative Government committed to of the working classes'. housing again became the responsibility of the Council's of them, but in view of the acute housing shortage he Estates, was completed in about 1976, and was the last He was a qualified architect and planner, with considerable experience in local 1970s access to individual dwellings continued to be from (fn. LCC's County of London Plan of 1943, the 1944 Dudley hut-dwellers as having been rehoused, at least for the much of the Festival housing at Lansbury. The work was executed without the tenants 94) The at its Empire, Alpha, and Grosvenor Wharves housing by the LCC on various sites around Poplar as part of sites for permanent housing much more difficult. effect in April 1965, when the LCC was succeeded by
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