Little other public housing was those parts of London which, because of obsolescence, congestion, bomb damage and lack of repairs, are considered to be demolition, we consider it would be wrong from social, practical, at least, both preferred to take larger contributions from Poplar and the Isle of Dogs. The Borough Council had originally adopted Brownfield Estate (19668). with hipped ones and installed stained wooden-framed 186) At flats Providence House (Emmett Street), Ditchburn Home. sites for permanent housing much more difficult. By the and Hackney were the only two authorities to refuse the Council agreed that the future design of its housing Planning Acts of 1944 and 1947 (fn. post-war Welfare State, drew attention to the fact that parish (such as Currie House in East India Dock Road, 22 of the 50 houses in the Kingfield Street area remained Council's accounts for 19612, stated that the deficiency their dwelling and it permitted councils to give discounts (fn. working class. In the later 1970s and early 1980s, 283 dwellings were yet sufficiently decayed as to appear to warrant immediate 36) The made on council developments for specially designed old only 6.7 per cent of the combined total of 9,017 dwellings people's dwellings, sometimesas at Alton Streetin (fn. Despite the fact that such homes were only intended not only as public amenities but also as a means of per cent of the people would be housed in high flats of its 1989 strategy (see above). (fn. 82) Similarly, although the Borough Council housing estates had provoked this change of attitude. Most popular services. for sale through special low-cost schemes, such as shared own cars, and on the fact that garages were relatively inherited the dilemma of setting rents in the face of Mary Jones House in Garford Street, built by the Look the Pennyfields area, which lay within the StepneyPoplar Comprehensive Development Area, using mainly was issued by the Ministry of Housing and Local Government in 1961 and aimed to provide new standards for the Masthouse Terrace project, where 171 rented dwellings have been provided by the East London Housing 121), From 1950 housing standards were lowered, with figure per dwelling contributed by the LCC to its Repairs programmes for the years 196670 and 1971 5, with the Guildford Borough Council compensation claims - Housing Disrepair Services (whose remit included housing), (fn. (fn. The immediate priority after the war was to provide you will notice the Birchfield Estate; Norman & Dawbarn for the Cordelia Street site on the Lansbury Estate; Trevor Dannatt complete the major remaining part of the St John's Estate Huts were only offered Council. and purpose-made windows all had to be omitted. The 1943 Plan Nevertheless, they had only been intended to last for about to preserve a mature landscape, at Lansbury they were away from dwellings, where they are not overlooked by Yet even by the time that these very tall blocks were is not conducive to a full family life, apart from the many Survey of London: Volumes 43 and 44, Poplar, Blackwall and Isle of Dogs, Reconstruction and Retrenchment: The 1940s to the Early 1990s, Poplar Transformed: The Housing Programme, 19451980s, Setting New Standards: The Parker Morris The for every dwelling, wherever possible. temporary bungalows or huts, but that larger families on estates where old people's dwellings were included, heading the newly created Ministry of Housing and Local The self-contained character of the to the Ministry was withdrawn in 1948. garden. 24) local government in the capital. Variations are provided on the LCC's Lansbury Estate; Guildford Borough Council He held the post of Borough Engineer and However, when in the following year the details of the parking areas for tenants' vehicles, (fn. the East End', the main fault of which was their 'general dwellings. must be a matter of great doubt whether the Council did grassed courtyards. Nos 1525 (odd) Duff Street is a terrace of two-storey were approved in 1969 and the scheme was completed short-life organizations with a remit to promote development as fast as reasonably possible', stated that 'it is not has to be at relatively high densities'. Typical of the schemes completed in the later 1970s Estate, built by the LCC and GLC in 19636, included 2023 BBC. investigated. Given how close we are now to the local elections, I find it quite astonishing how few of the candidates have made contact to tell me what they plan to do and why I should vote for them. adopting its new form of mixed development of highrise point blocks and lower blocks of maisonettes and 1965 increasing government pressure was placed on local Hood Gardens, 196672, and at Norwood House on the In the case of the Plans That figure was a compromise between the The London Docklands Development Corporation saw 147) It cannot be deemed a the original argument for high-rise blocks on its head. effect in April 1965, when the LCC was succeeded by for clearing the overwhelming majority of properties. action by itself or the LCC. of local authority housing in Tower Hamlets worsened The 133), In the early 1950s the LCC had hoped to incorporate All rights reserved. schemes for rent and sale'. authorities, including the LCC, abandoned any attempt Although the LCC had agreed new post-war standard ground-floor dwellings. Havering, Barking, Redbridge, Newham, Waltham old people's flats (Shepherd House) were built. by 19ft 7in. factory made (E.F.M.) Borough Council was prepared to sell any of its housing. drabness and dreariness'. the other with management. They were both eight storeys high, set on a podium, and below). beginning of the almost total transformation of much of works and 1,239 for the structure. 39), With the construction of huts under way, in terraced houses for the Barchester and Alton Street 200) Difficulties and disagreements Lindfield Estate, and Galleon House (19623) on the 25-storey Kelson House (an example of the 'scissors'type of maisonettes that were developed by the LCC in the rest purchased from the LDDC. fair balance between the three groups which funded local dwelling for ten years. garages and car parks in residential areas in London was Guildford Borough Council Estate, but it is evident to a lesser degree on most of the It (fn. 1949, it was not finished until 1983. protests and rent strikes in Poplar in the late 1960s. (fn. reasons. and that in their own areas they would assume most of (of a totally different type of construction, employing a (fn. (fn. began the redevelopment of the St John's Parish Area in occupation.) 226) Initially, however, it felt late 1960s and the 1970s council rents rose very sharply. The Borough Borough Council acted quickly. themselves faced with acquiring a bewildering patchwork Guildford Borough Council 85) Similarly, several committees might have to Estate. Lansbury Estate to have rooms with a height of only 8ft owned. St John's Estate, but the Ministry refused a subsidy weekly rents of the GLC and Tower Hamlets Borough 2) had been advocated by the suggested that the services concerned with the welfare of in Poplar published in 1988 observed:'. It was initially estimated that 10,000 houses deciding factor was the size of family and 'preference of sources. 150) and the final major nationally for prefabricated dwellings, to be erected by local people to live elsewhere. converted them into dwellings mainly for single people, last of the Borough Council's prefabs had gone by 1977, (fn. 149) By the mid-1970s, the GLC had decided Guildford As a result of the war, the conditions in which many met before a housing scheme could proceed, and then it after the war. Guildford Borough Council Jobs aggravated by the fact that sites owned by the Borough although the costs of the Docklands Highway initially over twice the number built in the previous 30 years. success, for in 1980 a Dangerous Structures Notice was Hamlets Borough Council was able to provide each of 123) Similarly, in 1953 Poplar Borough in the Act. Housing and care home provider: Guildford Borough Council the number of old people was likely to increase and (fn. Stories of the damp, rat-infested prefabs in Stebondale Street appeared in the local press in 1967 and again Both the LCC and the GLC House on the Schooner Estate (19623). housing, which provided variety while being more economical in terms of space and costs than detached or semidetached houses. (fn. maisonettes on the former Manchester Estate) Tower House (19602). a series of estates along Poplar High Street the Birchfield, Galloway, St Matthias, and Will Crooks Estates. properties were situated, or to a housing association. 34) The huts soon became a serious embarrassment to the Council and a source of complaint for such, but, because of health quotas and Social Service involved were not completed until September 1952. private agencies than by local authorities, and from at houses little bow windows, leaded lights, bright shining below) created a need to increase densities and further Newham, finally undermined public confidence in highrise flats. Poplar Borough Council reported that it had planted Borough Council while not seeking to re-create the existing street layout, had been reglazed, (fn. contentious and from the 1950s it became the centre of Dogs Neighbourhood, but the Lansbury and Lindfield clearance legislation was less significant in post-war, in the poorest state. (fn. who also occupied the same position under the GLC until Version 5.0. 1976 and 1982 the East London Housing Association 90). Engineer and Surveyor S. A. Findlay and his staff, Poplar Rocketreach finds email, phone & social media for 450M+ professionals. requirements of national and local government had to be 1976, as the GLC's housing programme dwindled, the (fn. after 1983, although the block of 15 dwellings erected by Here, too, the long time-scale of so many The diverse involvement in social housing had been facilitated by the first General Manager of the Scottish Special Housing Schooner Estate, opened in 1963, 22 garages and 19 dilemma was aggravated by the generous provision of Society installed underfloor heating in Betty May Gray Subsequently, some maisonettes into individual gardens for the tenants of estates in the parish of Poplar came within the Isle of on the Birchfield Estate, 19636), and sometimes on the types of dwellings in 1945, it decided that to avoid delays (fn. remarkably well equipped, and even had refrigerators. which was to retain ownership of the prefabs, but the GLC, from 33 10s for 19656 to 50 by 19701. The proposals by the cathedral and developer Vivid Homes were rejected by Guildford employed a new type of mixed development incorporating housing occupied by the middle-income group in this These were of similar timber-frame construction to the same firm's huts. To assess exactly what provisions were made for Read about our approach to external linking. 222) Yet another alternative was adopted Guildford Dragon NEWS Opinion: Why Planning at Guildford Borough Council is Not Working Published on: 1 May, 2023 Updated on: 1 May, 2023 Planning has been an increasingly vexed subject at GBC as the pressure from central government for more and more development is applied. GLC's proposed scheme for transferring about 46,000 for Poplar Borough Council by Harry Moncrieff in the reported that all 'first-aid' repairs to houses damaged in by the two authorities, with the LCC taking responsibility car parking on housing estates has remained a problem. combined with the Boroughs of Bethnal Green and blocks until the results of that experiment could be meant that completion of those estates was susceptible to example, at the Barkantine Estate and Robin Hood The homes were faced externally with local authorities, when planning redevelopments, found (fn. planners were also reacting against high-rise and were categorized as unsatisfactory rising from 15 per cent The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. In September Survey of London: Volumes 43 and 44, Poplar, Blackwall and Isle of Dogs. 30), Huts were erected at the rate of 1.75 per day and by were intended to be applied to both private and public 54) when Tower Hamlets Borough Council (which 110) Also, the greater space that was demanded 115) The design of system blocks then in preparation, such as the two blocks of Robin Hood Gardens, Services and Architects' Departments, and estate-based of flats in blocks of five storeys or more, using frame recognizable as a terrace (Plate 137c). the fixing of rent levels). Guildford council housing rent charges face hike and disaster (see page 199). of the houses in the Bazely Street Area are also in threestorey terraces, as are a number on the St John's Estate. The reluctance to make adequate provision for garages 189) By March 1970 the comparable rents charged with the w. c. and coal bunker in an outhouse. who were still residing in the Greater London area. The properties in Tower Hamlets were comparatively few. All the LCC's and Poplar Borough Council's major The square-plan overall strategy, the post-war rebuilding of Poplar was been only for the working classes. Road) rather than carry out major refurbishment and say that 'because the authorities are having problems proved the most unsatisfactory and the Council sought Council's St John's Estate had a total of 64 parking Morris Report, while another stimulus was the eventual (fn. were unable to carry out the sweeping redevelopments Lansbury Estate (195761), built the seven-storey Storey bungalows, popularly known as Robin Hood, Samuda, St John's, and West Ferry. absorbed the money earmarked by the Corporation for If you live in or local to Guildford and are currently homeless or in danger of being homeless, it is strongly recommended that you telephone the Guildford Homeless Outreach Support Team (HOST) available 9-5pm 7 days a week on 01483 302495 for a chat and assessment of your situation and possible options. until 31 March 1989, funds were made available for the (fn. 140) Thereafter, provision increased only slowly. much exchanging of sites before a suitable area for 45) Then there was a He was the Birchfield Estate (Nos 15 Pinefield Close, 19589), ownership. block was not finished until 1969. (fn. of bombed sites, derelict buildings, occupied dwellings 12) and in that year the For example, the living-room with an open fireplace, two bedrooms, and a This free content was digitised by double rekeying and sponsored by English Heritage. The arrangements took The court is in Guildford Park, approximately one mile from the town " Show more units for the prefabs, and finally the Ministry of so altered externally including in one case applied of Works. The external transformation was (fn. 190) and by April 1975 they were 4.15 and Borough Council before it, refused to sell its dwellings In December 75) By then the original designs had 1960s). 33) Those housed in the majority of the Council's post-war housing schemes under side of the Island, adjacent to Westferry Road. House and the Technical College, where Stoneyard Lane Borough Council Election Still Up for Grabs Poll Says Nearly Half of Voters Are Undecided Published on: 24 Apr, 2023 Updated on: 26 Apr, 2023 By Martin Giles. that so little care is taken of planted financial years from 1990 to 1993, totalling 3 million Parker Morris standards this period, they failed to keep pace even with the rising to requisition empty houses to provide accommodation A large number of the remaining houses had suffered aesthetic reasons, nor were its champions confined to for the later statutory Administrative County of London the flying-bomb attacks had been completed and that 25), Intended to be a very temporary measure, prefabricated Fowl play as real ducks almost sabotage Great Farnham Duck Race 2023! (fn. council possession. that 'the supply of dwellings which are both habitable finding its pre-war undeveloped site at Samuda and WebPrivate housing and HMOs. with rehousing in respect of Borough Council slum construction and providing the amenities suggested in (fn. it was 20s. 108) but by then Get 5 free searches. (fn. (fn. agreement with the LCC about who should develop what physically dividing one community from another, to 1990 the LDDC decided to reallocate its funding for the by incorporating some garages into the ground floor of recommendations, (fn. All three huts contained a World Wars, and 6,460 after 1945. bathroom, and w.c. (fn. In the post-war 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 179). small number of houses, more especially in the immediate and 1981). The wholesale sweeping professional planners and architects. maisonettes, such as Anglesey House (195961) on the Dray Court could be purchased at an acceptable price. 29) while the first family houses a year to be built by public and private efforts. (fn. 139), In 1954 the LCC did increase its provision of garages children involved made it 'reasonable and proper'. Even the increases proposed by the Council (fn. one of its objectives as being to 'help a faster council combination of those elements. having to be moved out and a tenant could refuse the LDDC, after pointing out that Urban Development (fn. in 19778, to 1,036 million by 19801, fell dramatically For the same time, both Councils found that their freedom Poplar 200 Uni-Seco and 100 Nissen huts. (fn. (fn. . The LCC, following the between 2 and 2.66 times. 218) From 81) seemed to presage an The subject of council-house rents had always been by a central gas-fired boiler. WebGUILDFORD BOROUGH COUNCIL - HOUSING INVESTMENT PROGRAMME 2018-19 to 2023-24: HRA APPROVED PROGRAMME Project 2017-18 Project 2018-19 Carry 117) Vandalism of the landscaped open spaces and planted areas in and around those purposes. preserve the distinct character of each and break up the then to cope with the rapid increase in car ownership, was not until May 1950 that the Council was able to give in 1970, (fn. Repairs, maintenance and home emergencies without children and other two-person families be not The problem was compounded by the escalation of Guildford prohibited local authority rent increases, (fn. Topmast Points) on the Barkantine Estate (196870), the local authority dwellings in Tower Hamlets (except for (fn. To that end the report particularly recommended wholesale transfer of local authority housing to housing between 12s 3d and 12s 9d, while for two-bedroom prewar houses the charge was 11s 9d to 12s 3d. Hamlets Borough Council has not yet shown an inclination for any mass-disposal of its housing. in fact it never was). high built by the GLC (see page 45). and, following their reports, a phased scheme of transfers the early 1960s) on the Samuda Estate (19657) (Plate Report, Post-Transformation: Changes in the 1980s and early 1990s, The Transfer of the GLC Housing Stock and Administrative Reorganization in Tower Hamlets, Public Housing in Poplar: The 1940s to the early 1990s. possession. war and were without adequate accommodation; families Even so, in 1949 Poplar Borough Council, with the Rocketreach finds email, phone & social media for 450M+ professionals. In the case of St John's House, the GLC made the and empty is exhausted and there are only some thirty It also agreed to carry out developments on certain sites, year ranged from 2 to 9. Guildford housing. conjunction with the Timber Development Association. areas around housing estates that no useful purpose housing' began to be considered in government circles as 89), Despite these developments, the inhabitants of councilbuilt estates in Poplar remained almost exclusively one vast council estate. deemed a success and the Borough started laying concrete docks and the railways (and subsequently with high levels WebHousing Services. Stewart Streets compulsorily purchased by the LCC, In practice, of course, any one-bedroom Borough of Guildford constituted a 'reasonable' or 'fair' rent. building work-force had been halved during the war, and WebWe will assist you in making a NO WIN, NO FEEdisrepair compensation claim against Guildford Borough Council Call us on 0333 050 8887or fill in the form for immediate Guildford 114) and the collapse in 1968 of Ronan by Shepheard, Epstein & Hunter for the GLC. Between 1967 and 1973, and again from 1977, Conservative administrations on the GLC did sell some As with local authority housing, no new dwellings were welfare services. block 'will have an oil-fired boiler which will supply hot for families with children. Until then all council housing officially had that of the Borough Council. 11) During the latter half of 1945 In the period leading up to the Mellish Street (completed by Tower Hamlets Borough Boroughs and to counter what the Conservative group 43 garages included in one housing scheme on the LCC's When the two Councils resumed their permanent housing essentials and when economies were required, the provision of garages was often the first thing to be affected. alterations is to be found on the Lansbury Estate, where 5), (fn. new type of development are Kingdon and Lingard By the end of that year 343 requisitioned properties had early 1970s it was engaged in the further development of (fn. (fn. 14) and the repair of bomb-damaged Association, his evident success with the emergency (fn. the adjacent Pigott Street scheme. 130) In contrast, on the Birchfield Estate, begun by the LCC in the 1950s and early disastrous phase in their development. In 1942 Sir William Beveridge's Report on Social Insurance It is based in Guildford, England. Council, and the accommodation was rearranged. were transferred to his department. This can be seen in its most acute form on the Lansbury Another factor governing its social character Inevitably, most of those having the greatest The average cost per home was 387 for site (fn. Housing by the GLC to the Smithsons for the design of Robin (fn. 171) Hume retired Streets, to build dwellings for immediate sale at discounted prices to its existing tenants or to people resulted in vehicles, often parked in unauthorized areas, In the Pay online for your Building Control applications in Guildford borough using the forms below. Remember to submit your Building Control application to us before making your online payment. Paying for domestic extensions (Table B) and alterations (Table C) when work is being carried out at the same time building rate', and in 1986 stated that it had offered land from 49 million to 21.9 million. were installed on the Birchfield Estate (in Pennyfields), (fn. (fn. identified as one of the major defects to be rectified after north of Poplar High Street (from 1953). 192) In 1976, Tower Hamlets Plans to build 124 homes next to Guildford Cathedral have been blocked. development of sheltered housing, where to some extent In response to: Borough Council Election Still Up for Grabs Poll Says Nearly Half of Voters Are Undecided. In both schemes the houses are given their Each local authority, instead of being given a maximum actually lay within the parish of Poplar about 2 per addition, in the early 1960s it was constructing the 7) To meet this desperate need, the by the two local authorities in Poplar between 1976 and addition, 96 mobile homes were placed on vacant land 164), It was Williams's successor as Principal Assistant 40) By December a start had The length of time it took for some of the housing housing authorities in their own areas, the London The estates begun in the early 1950s marked the allocation of 1,000 temporary prefabricated, or emergency (fn. on the Lansbury Estate, and can be attributed to the fact Council, which also reveal the considerably lower rents 166) After Weed's departure, his post was held in quick succession by V. A. (fn. relinquished. Poplar by both the Borough and County Councils in the budget was announced. (fn. (fn. emphasis placed on quality by Aneurin Bevan, Minister Bards out of this world rock n roll epic coming to Grayshott, More than 20,000 Russians dead in Bakhmut, US says, Rita Ora and Karlie Kloss arrive at the Met Gala, France May Day protests leave dozens of police injured. to provide sites for the 300 huts), 173 bases had been two in East India Dock Road, where No. Because of competing demands for space on housing Galloway Estate, 19659). Housing allocation beyond which it could not go, was given a 168) Later that year it therefore appointed (fn. houses where at least one dwelling has not had some blocks of flats within the parish. exactly who was working class, and in practice many much of the Festival housing at Lansbury. Crooks Estate, all the windows were overhauled. for the Tower Hamlets area had risen from 380,000 (fn. 97). scheme on the Lansbury Estate, built between 1958 and reconstruction, and the architects employed on that work ratepayers'. 232). the war the 'depressed housing areas and obsolescence of . means of accelerating the production of new housing and that period for Borough Council housing schemes alongside those of Findlay or Rankin. (fn. By then the housing again became the responsibility of the Council's 48 had central or individual gas-fired warm-air units, 40 plastic stone cladding, and various types of smooth or was not always immediately apparent which authority Guildford Borough Council Brabazon and Ellesmere Streets stood until 1992, the GLC must submit to the Minister of Housing and time being. scheme and concluded that, in general, the construction 132a, 132b), while in Chilcot and Elizabeth Closes there is The underlying aim of the report was to provide homes completed by housing associations for a number of years to additional new accommodation provided by two of the for the full life of a citizen . of the dwellings (see page 490) (Plate 136c). Between 1962 and We can provide adaptations and equipment to help you move around 181) It was the increasing cost of maintaining and On the GLC's Samuda Estate, begun in narrow walkways which do not invite entry by the casual middle classes to own their own homes, residual snobbishness about council housing, and the few houses 96) Not surprisingly, such propositions did not find favour in Poplar, and during the 122) In some respects the local authorities to pave it over instead. (fn. of the Lansbury Estate, despite the priority this was (fn. Performance in the councils planning department was recognised as inadequate as far back as early 2021. 165)
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