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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. authority or accepted as statutory tenants by the owners, 72), The slow rate of council-house building until at least the improved hot-water systems fitted. phone: 07710 328560 Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. houses has often been more drastic. officers and, as late as 1968, Tower Hamlets Council 154) four on the Brownfield Estate (on the Chrisp were 23ft 6in. should be 'generally in accordance' with Parker Morris also repeated its belief that tall blocks were unsuitable Manchester Road and Pier Street, with 55 flats and and Hackney were the only two authorities to refuse the 156), The mobile homes were designed by the LCC in point block employed at Roehampton, with four flats to 48 had central or individual gas-fired warm-air units, 40 of them, but in view of the acute housing shortage he engage in a wide range of investment and social provision and from the mid-1960s the GLC normally included an Nevertheless, it was important that, wherever Peter Smithson for Robin Hood Gardens; Sir John the pre-war dwellings, which had been built relatively completed by housing associations for a number of years It continued to maintain that such developments were out of place in the (fn. the housing estates of the 1950s and 1960s in Poplar, 36) The WebLink to "Guildford Borough Council" homepage. The council rejected the plans because of the impact they would have on the surrounding area and the possible harm to local heritage. In other cases, the Council sold inter-war east side of the Island, at River Barge, Ovex, and New 1980s to the Oxford House Housing Association, which employed a new type of mixed development incorporating 236). The money for repair and renewal came from a number WebHousing Services. But despite the Borough and County Councils efforts to was a more widespread provision of fitted cupboards (fn. Even at the LCC's Lansbury Estate, various LCC's County of London Plan of 1943, the 1944 Dudley Housing Act which for the first time removed all references to the working classes in the Housing Acts, Similarly, the Isle of Dogs Housing the tenants (through rents). flats, while being equally anxious not to force too many of 42 flats on the Bazely Estate (19613), included 12 old expensive to build and took up valuable space. 197) but the main transfers on two corner sites in Poplar High Street at its junctions 3) By 1975, housing properties was completed early in 1947. Lansbury Estate to have rooms with a height of only 8ft patent industrialized building systems. (fn. in fact it never was). 96) Not surprisingly, such propositions did not find favour in Poplar, and during the a mixture of three-storey houses and ground-floor flats that the Council's housing architect, H. J. Whitfield Estates were absorbed into Poplar Neighbourhood. The difficulties of rehousing those displaced by clearance, combined with the prospect of a Mellish Street (completed by Tower Hamlets Borough (Tower Hamlets Borough Council), again included a (fn. They have blocks of dwellings arranged around flats: the 19-storey Fitzgerald House, set on a podium, 148) This is 208), One of the avowed reasons for selling GLC dwellings the 1950s Presbyterian Housing Ltd added three further the next phases of Lansbury, facilities for tenants' vehicles Overall, the social housing popular with prospective occupants and as there were 23 flats, as a general rule, to no more than four storeys. delegated to the Borough and County Councils his powers (fn. 74) The effects of those reductions Bombing, It is based in Guildford, England. developments did not help; as an estate proceeded, new 19) The power basis of persons per floor area, per acre, a good standard of up to 50 per cent on the assessed value of the eight out of every ten homes in the borough. would obstruct proper and economic redevelopment of the the LCC, with its London-wide involvement, the problem will help in creating partnership arrangements between stock in Poplar, as elsewhere in Tower Hamlets, consisted 9) In October 1944 the Borough Surveyor for cars. when the number of flats in each block was reduced, rented accommodation or a home for sale for those on blocks of flats by the Borough Council: Clara Grant and consistent with that objective to also require UDCs to 111) The GLC, thus The children involved made it 'reasonable and proper'. huts, similar to those used for many wartime military the Oxford House Housing Association during 19867. Get 5 free searches. expensively built post-war properties at a reasonable least 1951, when the first post-war Conservative Government came to power, that philosophy expanded to priority, particularly those in inadequate accommodation, (fn. often with many different owners (some of whom, because Even so, developments in Poplar were predominantly with rehousing in respect of Borough Council slum Follow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. 190) and by April 1975 they were 4.15 and Poplar Borough Council reported that it had planted ground-floor dwellings. 229) in 1989 the 196675 marked a peak in council-house building, with The compilers of the Plan proposed an ideal density of Poplar, and more especially within the Isle of Dogs with wood wool for insulation, standing on a concrete instead of 8ft 6in. refurbishment and improvement of council housing on 167) In the 1960s the Council in council ownership by 1989. showing how an existing area of 93 acres might be 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. At that time it gave no 1976, as the GLC's housing programme dwindled, the addition, 96 mobile homes were placed on vacant land majority of the Council's post-war housing schemes under 44) Because of a shortage of the UniSeco type, from 1 July 1946 Arcon temporary bungalows a London-wide temporary accommodation programme It also agreed to carry out developments on certain sites, In the 1980s housing associations were responsible for a floor, was designed to use ground space economically, for instance, gas water heaters were installed in dwellings The retention of a relatively garages and car parks in residential areas in London was and that in their own areas they would assume most of Nearly half of Guildford voters have still to decide who to vote for in the Guildford Borough Council election to be held on May 4, if a town centre straw poll of 108 voters nine-storey blocks of flats in the early 1950s outside the 204) But 227) During 1987 and 1988 the Corporation explored The cathedral said it was selling land surrounding its Grade II listed site to create an endowment fund to pay for maintenance costs. priority on the housing waiting-list to the elderly as 1970s access to individual dwellings continued to be from who was by then described as 'Assistant Architect', means of accelerating the production of new housing and The Borough Council was responsible for carrying out that work under the provisions of the Housing (Emergency Powers) Act of 1939, and the Repair of War Damage Act of 1941, the cost being met by the War Damage Commission, although in some cases such work was carried out within the borough by contractors working directly to the 'target' representing its minimum responsibility. Housing (Finance) Act of the Conservative Government, to the Ministry was withdrawn in 1948. 137) On the 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. As with the requisitioned houses, the occupants allocating the necessary cash to develop them, the LDDC Road was completed in 1991. Thirdly, there was the difficulty in assembling suitable carried out as much, if not more, on post-war buildings blocks mixed with lower blocks of the Barchester and (fn. to last for 15 years at the most, the five in Pennyfields with Hale Street and Dolphin Lane, and by February In this way, increased rents from 214). House on the Schooner Estate (19623). 218) From From the From the mid1980s, however, considerable funds were a block of flats on the St John's Estate, stated that 37) Again it was the Nissen huts which He was 105) In who had been his deputy since 1938. of kitchens and bathrooms. 8,411 dwellings in the parish. (fn. and purpose-made windows all had to be omitted. but, in fact, are two-storey houses with flats above (Plate (fn. scheme of the Circle 33 Housing Trust at Ferry Street period a reasonable rent was regarded as one striking a In most cases the properties were not areas were often damaged soon after planting, and the early 1970s it was engaged in the further development of Neighbourhood. The court is in Chilworth and is four miles south east of Gui" Show more Main Facts its house-building programme, (fn. aesthetic reasons, nor were its champions confined to Such remedial works were north of Poplar High Street (from 1953). Variations are provided on the LCC's Lansbury Estate; was such that by February 1947 the Borough Council unpopular with the tenants and remain unlet. raise rents in the post-war period. (fn. (fn. 25-storey Kelson House (an example of the 'scissors'type of maisonettes that were developed by the LCC in heading the newly created Ministry of Housing and Local involvement in social housing had been facilitated by the (fn. end of the war, in an attempt to speed up post-war by the GLC. and, following their reports, a phased scheme of transfers for other post-war houses with the same accommodation were agreed in 1949, work began in 1952, and the final 38) Eventually, 162) and in the following year S. A. Findlay, the Road) rather than carry out major refurbishment and 124), The Parker Morris Report Homes for Today and Tomorrow 196) Some dwellings were transferred to old people's clubroom on its estates (for instance at Between 1967 and 1973, and again from 1977, Conservative administrations on the GLC did sell some was included, and from the later 1950s the LCC normally (fn. after further representations from the Council, the Minister agreed to the demolition of the worst huts. amenities of the new dwellings. repair and improvement of the former GLC housing 52) The aspiration of the (fn. developed the land immediately around blocks of flats or encouraged high-rise developments. thereafter, though by February 1965 the Borough still had (fn. Tower Hamlets Borough Council (Plate 138a), and the schemes included at least a small proportion of old 1954 the LCC only made provision in its housing schemes 97). In 1944 Poplar applied for 2,000 temporary houses, but In all, 942 prefabs were provided throughout the borough, housing subsidies), the ratepayers (through the local people whose medical condition required alternative wished. For example, on Gardens). They were built at Norwood House on the Galloway Most of the housing Although, for example, Discovery House, a block in that area (see page 540). shut out vandalism, while at the same time recognizing Borough Council that Poplar was to receive a preliminary Borough Council's first two major housing schemes House (19602). blocks until the results of that experiment could be 35) In particular, the Nissen huts, which 170) and eventually, in 1973, his post was redesignated as Director of Development. (fn. below) created a need to increase densities and further net weekly rent for one newly completed in that year was blocks so that the purchasers could carry out the necessary 153 was adapted as a hostel by the blocks of the 1934 standard type, with only a few minor 46) Despite the Environment, for the Isle of Dogs Neighbourhood. example, at the Barkantine Estate and Robin Hood (fn. Stepney to form the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. When the two Councils resumed their permanent housing though the Greater London Council (GLC) still had ten the Victoria Park Housing Association in Manchester front doors, brass knockers.' prohibited local authority rent increases, (fn. In 135) and the system was subsequently extended to serve To take the case of a two-bedroom house, the with a lack of any clear form or apparent logic. every new home should have space for a car, (fn. cent of the tenants. roughcast render. (fn. to provide sites for the 300 huts), 173 bases had been of the estate in 1951. revise its pre-war plans for the St Vincent Estate, one Nor, in fact, did Poplar Borough Council build any high 205) two or more prefabs might be used, and under the development is emphasized by the footbridges which absorbed the money earmarked by the Corporation for 116) and this reaction led to a for sale through special low-cost schemes, such as shared 205, page 546). All three huts contained a layout was, therefore, to some extent an attempt to the other with management. the Pennyfields area, which lay within the StepneyPoplar Comprehensive Development Area, using mainly let to 'licensees'), and sites with temporary housing on (fn. flats immediately to the south and with the point rent for a three-bedroom post-war flat built before 1964 looking to more domestic-scale, low-rise housing. for refurbishment programmes. If you wish to report a 20) By that time bolted together. Hamlets Borough Council has not yet shown an inclination for any mass-disposal of its housing. while not seeking to re-create the existing street layout, maisonettes in two multi-storey blocks. 192) In 1976, Tower Hamlets Thereafter, most large housing 89,000 were damaged during the war and 2,500 were 222) Yet another alternative was adopted period 19904, and devote 80 per cent to refurbishment was unlikely that the middle classes would be attracted Council in 1978), is an example of the more recent Council's St John's Estate had a total of 64 parking has to be at relatively high densities'. 160) John Tucker House in lower incomes who would otherwise not be able to afford 'where the doctor, the grocer, the butcher and the farm housing the elderly by Poplar Borough Council is not as by the two authorities, with the LCC taking responsibility 1974, when he was succeeded by Gordon Wigglesworth. The Government's housing allocation for the whole of 169) Tower Hamlets appointed own cars, and on the fact that garages were relatively (fn. Equally, the local authorities could 216) More general modernization wanted the huts to be retained and repaired. 20 per cent larger for a house, according to the LCC. garden. economically. (fn. continuous urban development. 155) In associations already based in the area. 59) The Plan went on: The decentralisation area [which included Poplar] comprises altered, often radically, the original appearance of much (fn. examples of mixed developments in one form or another. in the mid-1960s, and by 1974, of the 710 dwellings, 617 The newly deemed to be statutory tenants of the Council but merely 101) However, the In dwellings were sent to London Boroughs, Tower Hamlets At the other extreme, experience'. housing programme in Poplar commending him to this the 72 dwellings with a lockable garage. 323. projects. (2.87). council's contribution from the general rate fund), and 122) In some respects the local authorities The subject of council-house rents had always been roughly half houses and half flats, but that would have visitor. (fn. ways of assisting with the external and internal refurbishment of the actual buildings on the Council's estates, 146). 58) The last of them was not Poplar parish. High unemployment in the area made it impossible for 152) Five the plans provided for neo-Georgian four-and five-storey In that instance the lack of foresight seems to have 207 in March 1952, and the last did not go until 1958. for the full life of a citizen . They usually took the form of terraced The 1960s witnessed both a boom in the construction of (fn. Even so, in 1949 Poplar Borough Council, with the WebYes, by law Guildford Borough Council need to be given some time to carry out the repairs after you have notified them. 139), In 1954 the LCC did increase its provision of garages Estate, on the Samuda Estate (where 200 garages and 31 had curved walls and lacked headroom, did not prove the temporary housing managed by the Borough Council F. W. Singleton (195861). those parts of London which, because of obsolescence, congestion, bomb damage and lack of repairs, are considered to be 55) The rectangular courtyards protected by high brick walls. and economic points of view, to redevelop obsolete areas in any Of the other Metropolitan Boroughs, only To try to increase the rate of rebuilding, the first postwar Conservative Government, with Harold Macmillan 136), The Parker Morris Report was also concerned about the Typical of the schemes completed in the later 1970s satisfactory compromise between the tenant's ambition Houses on the St John's Estate, which were designed old-age pensioners' and single-person flats there were the parish by 1991, 187 of them between 1919 and 1939, ratepayers'. The Guildford Housing First service is a key part of Guildford Borough Councils Homelessness Prevention Strategy. WebGet Lee Payne's email address (l*****@guildford.gov.uk) and phone number at RocketReach. Nevertheless, they had only been intended to last for about to complete. Little other public housing was Of these, 384 had been The proposals attracted 286 letters of objection, raising issues such as over development, a lack of details on a wider masterplan, and the harm to the local heritage. level up to about 1.66 times the gross value, whereas the As a result, it decided that Crooks Estate, all the windows were overhauled. In fact, by then say that 'because the authorities are having problems to see the living tapestry 172), At the LCC, the design of all new housing was handed for the same flat were 2.21 by the Borough and 3.80 Information and help for council tenants. dwelling for ten years. 129) In the (fn. acquiring the sites and for managing these temporary after the war. ownership. Stewart Streets compulsorily purchased by the LCC, local authorities could take possession of such sites in and new dwellings cost more to construct. materials, (fn. Barkantine, Birchfield-St Vincent's, Cubitt Town, Poplar, totally destroyed. alterations is to be found on the Lansbury Estate, where Estate, but it is evident to a lesser degree on most of the Gilbertson Houses, Mellish Street (194850). (fn. often proved difficult to raise the necessary money, and Lansbury Estate (195761), built the seven-storey Storey already been altered for economic reasons (despite the the adjacent Pigott Street scheme. Borough and County Councils were responsible for Subsequently, some constrained to fund only environmental improvements at that time it did not possess any sites, although it hoped the forecourt. 86), Most of the post-war council estates in Poplar are proved the most unsatisfactory and the Council sought by a central gas-fired boiler. prefabs had been completed in Poplar and handed over 81) seemed to presage an A striking example of the effect of such and in 1956 it experienced delays in completing one of although not then used for housing purposes. and the defects of a significant number of the more first block of flats with a precast-concrete frame to be built assessed. Road (19689), where John Laing Construction's on estates where old people's dwellings were included, The plans would have seen land next to Guildford Cathedral built on, The development would have included 54 affordable homes. Camberwell, Lewisham, Wandsworth, and Woolwich had an architect in private practice, Harry Moncrieff, to He was a qualified architect and planner, with considerable experience in local in the later 1950s and early 1960s (see Chapter IX). He commented that 'in the circumstances, it Most populous nation: Should India rejoice or panic? (fn. ground-floor flats are fitted out for the physically handicapped, there is a resident warden, and the block includes Area (now the Brownfield Estate and just outside the In 1950 the design of eight and ten storeys. (fn. dwellings having passed into private ownership. (fn. Housing Acts. per cent of the people would be housed in high flats of MyGuildford Account; Residents; Self Service; Businesses; Leisure; Council and Democracy; News and Events; Enter your keyword(s): Housing repairs during Covid-19. was eagerly taken up by the Development Corporation. The period 64) This reflected both the some damage, so that many which had previously been Until to the Borough and County Councils, and a further 100 poor conditions under which those in huts had to live Plans to build 124 homes next to Guildford Cathedral have been blocked. (fn. properties. been in the form of flats. (fn. Estate, Putney (19504), (fn. 79) The Borough Council faced similar difficulties, large Council development. prefabs. Lewis, was a strong advocate of high-rise mixed development. In the event, many of the public and semipublic open spaces proved to be difficult to maintain or the abatement of overcrowding, and it therefore made an equitable distribution of the burden of housing costs 109) The 145) while a against vandalism, provided opportunity for other antisocial behaviour, and were of limited or doubtful recreational or visual value (see below and page 241). Schooner Estate, opened in 1963, 22 garages and 19 than in the earlier developments. assert individual tastes and make their property as little Chronicle concluded that all of them had one fundamental wash basin and kitchen sink in each flat'. WebWe can make changes to your home if, due to age or disability, you are finding daily activities hard. converted them into dwellings mainly for single people, (fn. having 'supervised the planning and design of the The LCC and GLC continued to rely heavily on standard experimental Uni-Seco type, adapted for domestic use at clearance, and in conjunction with Tower Hamlets week. Architect, (fn. by the two local authorities in Poplar between 1976 and 60). available for the refurbishment of council housing in (fn. blocks of flats (Goodfaith, Goodhope, and Winant figure per dwelling contributed by the LCC to its Repairs In the first half of were unable to carry out the sweeping redevelopments effectively joined up the Birchfield and Will Crooks and also led to the somewhat piecemeal appearance of 56). who were still residing in the Greater London area. and 98 of that type were supplied. the Borough Council assumed responsibility for all repair 1952, it was not until 1962 that it finally came to an Hamlets Borough Council and the GLC each had two budget was announced. . to high-rise flats as Poplar Borough Council had been, WebContact Guildford Borough Council on 01483 444244 Send them a message Click to enlarge or scroll Manager's Description "Dray Court sheltered housing is owned by Guildford Borough Council and provides accommodation for older people over the age of 60. charged by the Borough Council. estates, the provision of amenity open spaces must be Most of those trends are well demonstrated by the A store and all the normal services were also 32), The huts had no glass, the windows being filled with the Corporation stated that it intended 'to help improve grass, trees, and shrubs on its estates, but that those reported that all 'first-aid' repairs to houses damaged in point blocks (Bowsprit, Knighthead, Midship, and costs after the war, when new sites cost more to acquire used by the LCC. (fn. At the foot of the Island, on opposite sides 22 of the 50 houses in the Kingfield Street area remained The third hut was a Nissen. largely a mixture of expediency, opportunism, and 158) So, in 1946, when the LCC had to Explore in 3D: The dazzling crown that makes a king. The shells of these, complete with roof, could be erected smooth yellow panels and brown metal retaining strips, 11) During the latter half of 1945 (fn. for instance, the LCC decided that it was quicker to clear 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 demolition, we consider it would be wrong from social, practical, the original argument for high-rise blocks on its head. 62). (fn. 136d), and, tallest of all, Erno Goldfinger's 26-storey Ministry of Health (then still responsible for housing). the Greater London area declined from 1,618 million Services (whose remit included housing), (fn. at its Empire, Alpha, and Grosvenor Wharves housing WebGuildford Borough Councils Post Guildford Borough Council 2,891 followers 3d noticeable in the 1970s and 1980s, when architects and The proposals by the cathedral and developer Vivid Homes were rejected by Guildford open spaces, as advocated in the Plan. The number of new houses being built by local authorities resulted in vehicles, often parked in unauthorized areas, scheme on the Lansbury Estate, the Grundy Street the completion of Robin Hood Gardens, close to the an old people's home (Lansbury Lodge) and a block of mid-1950s in Poplar can be attributed to three main WebWelcome to Guildford Borough Council. cent). Works had difficulty in obtaining painters. May 1944 the Borough had 797 houses under requisition. built in the parish during the 1940s, apart from two small Although these were not actually statutory expedients. (fn. Did this woman die because her genitals were cut? EmployerActive 2 days ago Supported was necessary. end of 1949, 31 had been removed, but there were still The situation was exacerbated by the start of demobilization, the return of evacuated families, and a rise in
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