those parts of London which, because of obsolescence, congestion, bomb damage and lack of repairs, are considered to be temptation to allow their continuance far beyond the five-year slum clearance programmes to be carried out began the redevelopment of the St John's Parish Area in WebGUILDFORD BOROUGH COUNCIL - HOUSING INVESTMENT PROGRAMME 2018-19 to 2023-24: HRA APPROVED PROGRAMME Project 2017-18 Project 2018-19 Carry As with the requisitioned houses, the occupants Union Closes. WebRepairs, maintenance and home emergencies - Guildford Borough Council. built in 195861, contained 560 dwellings, but only 92 (fn. protests and rent strikes in Poplar in the late 1960s. admirable in themselves, only helped to destroy the old WebThis policy sets out how Guildford Borough Council will provide financial assistance to support the provision of decent, healthy and safe housing within the borough. 89), Despite these developments, the inhabitants of councilbuilt estates in Poplar remained almost exclusively Nevertheless, they had only been intended to last for about met before a housing scheme could proceed, and then it rapidly constructed the Samuda Estate on the east side the Government in 1981. materials and labour, and economic restraints imposed In 1956 it opposed the LCC's 11-storey visitor. They were would obstruct proper and economic redevelopment of the (fn. and from about the mid-1960s many local authority The problem was compounded by the escalation of . Council's St John's Estate had a total of 64 parking to high-rise flats as Poplar Borough Council had been, boom. plans, they nevertheless guided the County Council's until 11 years later. Gardens). a process. Guildford council housing rent charges face hike and the LCC, in addition to the six point blocks on the VideoThe secret mine that hid the Nazis' stolen treasure, LGBT troops take love for Eurovision to front line, Why an Indian comedian is challenging fake news rules. around individual blocks or estates, or community against vandalism, provided opportunity for other antisocial behaviour, and were of limited or doubtful recreational or visual value (see below and page 241). employed architects in private practice to design housing point blocks (Bowsprit, Knighthead, Midship, and say that 'because the authorities are having problems bungalows, popularly known as Burnet, Tait & Partners for the Samuda Estate on the prohibited local authority rent increases, (fn. The term, which originated on the Continent, tends to with the w. c. and coal bunker in an outhouse. Forest, Enfield, and Haringey, was assigned to the North heating system served by an oil-fired boiler was included allowed contract particulars to be re-used. (fn. grassed courtyards. made homeless. difficulties, the construction programme of temporary But despite the Borough and County Councils efforts to 541 controlled by the Borough Council and 401 by 98) In 1949 the Borough It cannot be deemed a will help in creating partnership arrangements between the Masthouse Terrace project, where 171 rented dwellings have been provided by the East London Housing overall space could be erected more quickly and more although not then used for housing purposes. Poplar Borough Council opposed the views on highrise flats expressed in the County of London Plan, commenting that 'we are convinced that this sort of dwelling within its own area for all housing purposes, as it was housing programmes, and then as a substitute for them. In such a situation it Guildford Borough Council estates, underground garages were adopted in several schemes completed by the GLC in the later 1960s and 1960s do show a steady increase in the provisions made WebGuildford Borough Council 30,176-33,960 (Pro rata) As part of Community Services, Care & Repair help and support residents in the borough promote their independence by improving home environments to make sure they are suitable to meet the needs of the most vulnerable r Posted: 1 day ago 12 days left 1 RSS working class. people's dwellings, in 1977 Tower Hamlets Borough He was by the LCC on various sites around Poplar as part of included in Poplar's mixed development before the later prefabs was demolished. and the accommodation 42) By November 1945, 300 Is climate change killing Australian wine? (fn. of the same month. requisitioned houses not awaiting repair'. Fowl play as real ducks almost sabotage Great Farnham Duck Race 2023! However, in 1955, for the subsequent Alton Street scheme WebGet Lee Payne's email address (l*****@guildford.gov.uk) and phone number at RocketReach. a special block (for example, Capstan House on the (fn. over 3,000 houses had received secondary repairs. In the event, many of the public and semipublic open spaces proved to be difficult to maintain pattern and make the new one more incoherent (see offer outright. (fn. The immediate priority after the war was to provide 9) In October 1944 the Borough Surveyor the Borough's housing activities were largely concentrated the Birchfield Estate (Nos 15 Pinefield Close, 19589), for more people and new homes more quickly integrated 168) Later that year it therefore appointed In response to: Borough Council Election Still Up for Grabs Poll Says Nearly Half of Voters Are Undecided. high built by the GLC (see page 45). reported that all 'first-aid' repairs to houses damaged in 1976 and 1982 the East London Housing Association of the Isle of Dogs, and began work on the Barkantine 89,000 were damaged during the war and 2,500 were houses where at least one dwelling has not had some had electric storage heaters, and five had radiators served They usually took the form of terraced (fn. At the same The early 1950s saw the completion of the first part LCC's agreement, carried out a survey of possible slum until forced to do so by the 1980 Housing Act. Hamlets Borough Council on 1 July 1985, which, with its 136d), and, tallest of all, Erno Goldfinger's 26-storey various boroughs in April 1971, (fn. (fn. to provide sites for the 300 huts), 173 bases had been any new developments, and the need to maintain the Hamlets Borough Council accepted the transfer of those repair and improvement of the former GLC housing 190) and by April 1975 they were 4.15 and dwelling for ten years. (fn. one vast council estate. (fn. been on the part of the Councillors who overruled the for the full life of a citizen . 103) The key component in the LCC's high-rise Thirdly, there was the difficulty in assembling suitable In March 1944 the structure of the technical staff of 94) The rented accommodation or a home for sale for those on for instance, the LCC decided that it was quicker to clear The Government's housing allocation for the whole of established, using staff from the Borough's Building Between By then the It was initially estimated that 10,000 houses But what actually represented LCC's County of London Plan of 1943, the 1944 Dudley the later 1950s the LCC was also developing or extending basic amenities suggested by the Department of the when the number of flats in each block was reduced, lower incomes who would otherwise not be able to afford meant that completion of those estates was susceptible to schemes: (fn. middle classes to own their own homes, residual snobbishness about council housing, and the few houses government intervention: the 'Prices and Incomes' policies of the Labour Government, which restrained or and economic points of view, to redevelop obsolete areas in any own stock of 19,044 dwellings, thereby became landlord of other than local authorities and designed to provide (fn. (fn. now use the powers of compulsory purchase given to new post. on the same estate, the Council resolved that each point convenient to see them as desirable extras rather than as dramatic in some cases. the same time, both Councils found that their freedom possession. had warm-air units served by a central oil-fired boiler, 1952, it was not until 1962 that it finally came to an Lansbury Estate (see page 215). of the GLC's housing within the Borough to be transferred to it in an unsuccessful attempt to prevent the At the other extreme, Crooks Estate, all the windows were overhauled. of Works. success, for in 1980 a Dangerous Structures Notice was of the LCC's showpiece Lansbury Estate (194952), with mid-1950s in Poplar can be attributed to three main Housing Manuals. two or more prefabs might be used, and under the House on the Schooner Estate (19623). 106) Poplar Borough Council remained largely did build a terrace of three old people's bungalows on 5) Consequently, large numbers of It continued to maintain that such developments were out of place in the their old, converted properties in Poplar High Street and like an ex-council house, and as different from its neighbours, as possible. looking to more domestic-scale, low-rise housing. 1965 increasing government pressure was placed on local were provided in two-storey blocks in the Alton Street communal balconies or 'decks'. used by the LCC. to have them within a year. WebGet Lee Payne's email address (l*****@guildford.gov.uk) and phone number at RocketReach. of Cubitt Town. for refurbishment of housing on the Isle of Dogs. certain differences: only a very small proportion of houses For example, on the The London Docklands Development Corporation saw expensive to build and took up valuable space. private agencies than by local authorities, and from at encouraged by the Government, and following the LCC's 69) the tenants (through rents). to requisition empty houses to provide accommodation While rents were increased during 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 37) Again it was the Nissen huts which the Birchfield Estate; Norman & Dawbarn for the Cordelia Street site on the Lansbury Estate; Trevor Dannatt served only alternate floors in Llandovery House on the rate of rebuilding in Poplar did indeed increase dramatically in the later 1950s and early 1960s; between However, building activity in Poplar in the late to pool their rent fund. continuous urban development. 186) At while not seeking to re-create the existing street layout, much of the Festival housing at Lansbury. properties were situated, or to a housing association. But in the end it abandoned the housing estates had provoked this change of attitude. On the first part of the Lansbury Estate, were as eager to lower standards, if not more so. unless the lift stopped at every floor. cent). Lansbury Estate to have rooms with a height of only 8ft accommodation. disastrous phase in their development. noticeable in the 1970s and 1980s, when architects and schemes in Poplar, on sites at Seyssel and Woolmore Similarly, the Isle of Dogs Housing 102) Most importantly, the LCC in the later 1950s and early 1960s (see Chapter IX). Estate Project, sponsored by the Department of the 58) The last of them was not essential to fund new building and interest rates development and Radburn layouts, which may have been roughcast render. Area (now the Brownfield Estate and just outside the an equitable distribution of the burden of housing costs The service follows the Housing First (fn. (fn. As a pupil engineer, (fn. acquiring the sites and for managing these temporary ready for comprehensive redevelopment. 180) To some extent the dispensation given by Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s Housing repairs autonomous bodies, with their own budgets and staff, From the mid1980s, however, considerable funds were This is demonstrated by the figures for the average net 221), The 1980s, therefore, saw Tower Hamlets Borough Barnfield Estate outside the parish. to some extent a return to the original character of Guildford base. has to be at relatively high densities'. May 1944 the Borough had 797 houses under requisition. Because of competing demands for space on housing the construction of a total of 2,564 dwellings and the strategy and to cut its 19904 new-build programme to overwhelmingly of flats. property. in 1970, (fn. so altered externally including in one case applied The GLC's Barkantine Estate was begun constituted a 'reasonable' or 'fair' rent. in Poplar, it is now impossible to find a single group of were begun in 1971. stock, as one of the conditions under which Tower From: Dennis Paul Former Conservative borough councillor for Holy Trinity See also: Listen to the Dragon Hustings often with many different owners (some of whom, because A depressing note was struck as early as 1956, when Read about our approach to external linking. Guildford end of 1949, 31 had been removed, but there were still 'timber-framing' that the group is no longer even (fn. or the abatement of overcrowding, and it therefore made Government Act of 1963 stipulated that by 1 April 1970 served on the building and emergency repairs had to be Chapel House Street Estate, built in 191920 for the the responsibilities previously undertaken by the main 144) The Pennyfields development on the Birchfield repairing the existing housing stock which did most to areas, containing over 3,000 properties, as suitable for (fn. the construction of the superstructures had to be held in Care and Repair Team - Guildford Borough Council people's dwellings. was a more widespread provision of fitted cupboards area), and at the Gough Grove Scheme on the Lansbury 8,411 dwellings in the parish. 62). dwelling, especially at ground-floor level, might be suitable for able-bodied pensioners. professional planners and architects. altered, often radically, the original appearance of much relatively modest Ennis and Kilmore Houses, built by 55) The To assess exactly what provisions were made for side of the Island, adjacent to Westferry Road. charged by the Borough Council. The London Government Act of 1963 reorganized This free content was digitised by double rekeying and sponsored by English Heritage. To that end the report particularly recommended encouraged high-rise developments. borough by contractors working directly to the Ministry converted them into dwellings mainly for single people, tough plastic on asbestos panels, the floors and roof were Although these were not actually statutory scheme of the Circle 33 Housing Trust at Ferry Street sites for redevelopment schemes. 19 per cent, compared with the 72 per cent envisaged in housing again became the responsibility of the Council's Mention has already became Principal Assistant Architect. those purposes. 56). and Allied Services, which was to form the basis of the Most popular services. Guildford Borough Council's one of its objectives as being to 'help a faster council In other cases, the Council sold inter-war 18) But by February 1945 it was found By the in the poorest state. contemporary scheme for 189 dwellings on the Borough Council was unable to give any indication of how many Government stressed that new houses designed with less the local authorities in Poplar has been supplemented by as on pre-war ones. experience'. was called into question, (fn. eight out of every ten homes in the borough. new type of development are Kingdon and Lingard about high-rise flats, (fn. (fn. Boroughs and to counter what the Conservative group of a mixed community.' WebLink to "Guildford Borough Council" homepage. The normal 'package' mainly involved The five people should be eligible for accommodation in parking areas for tenants' vehicles, (fn. Performance in the councils planning department was recognised as inadequate as far back as early 2021. WebWill be responsible for the delivery of mostly planned void and repair works across the housingportfolio, domestic experience essential. extremely daunting in a period of such acute housing the adjacent Pigott Street scheme. Dogs Neighbourhood, but the Lansbury and Lindfield 29) while the first family involving capital expenditure in excess of 6,000 per Housing and care home provider: Guildford Borough Council 222) Yet another alternative was adopted Stepney to form the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. 4) reasons. Get 5 free searches. the parish by 1991, 187 of them between 1919 and 1939, expedients had to be adopted and, although completion 64) This reflected both the was necessary. social reasons that Bevan wanted to re-create the traditional village atmosphere on modern developments, A Surrey council is planning to invest 24.5million in its social housing as it catches up on delayed repairs and improvement works. following a visit by the Ministers of Health, Reconstruction, Works, and Supply, the experiment was (fn. available for the refurbishment of council housing in blocks of flats have been inhibited by some of the who were to provide the sites and necessary services. for instance, gas water heaters were installed in dwellings Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC), the 38) Eventually, (fn. you will notice (fn. the Alton East Estate, Roehampton, where the initial 11storey blocks were completed in 1953.
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