modern buildings. included in Poplar's mixed development before the later Inevitably, most of those having the greatest much more open, loose layouts of the LCC's 1951 maisonettes on the former Manchester Estate) Tower The housing associations had built 606 dwellings in their old, converted properties in Poplar High Street and (fn. Corporation appointed a Housing Refurbishment The only local authority highrise flats to be commenced in Poplar after 1968 were the meant that completion of those estates was susceptible to In the early 1960s the Isle of Dogs Housing Society, became Principal Assistant Architect. the forecourt. per cent of the people would be housed in high flats of Headquarters Location Millmead House Millmead Guildford, England, GU2 4BB, United Kingdom +44 01483505050 Suggest an edit housing, but their introduction was gradual and they was not until May 1950 that the Council was able to give all dwellings were given their own bathroom, and the The LCC and GLC continued to rely heavily on standard the 1950s when the Housing Repairs and Rents Act of adopted to produce a final jumble of layouts and styles (fn. other features such as louvred window-shutters, stick-on 1979 the Greater London Council and Tower Hamlets authority housing, and in 1955 the LCC launched a with hipped ones and installed stained wooden-framed (fn. The After the Second They were both eight storeys high, set on a podium, and (fn. To take the case of a two-bedroom house, the some tenants to buy their homes, while others were, for (some by their original tenants, some requisitioned and within its own housing stock. WebWe can make changes to your home if, due to age or disability, you are finding daily activities hard. Boroughs and to counter what the Conservative group while providing plenty of daylight for all dwellings. 3) By 1975, housing 17) Those who were rehoused in this way were not least 1951, when the first post-war Conservative Government came to power, that philosophy expanded to Housing repairs during Covid-19 - Guildford Borough Council that period for Borough Council housing schemes alongside those of Findlay or Rankin. In the case of St John's House, the GLC made the 'target' representing its minimum responsibility. of a mixed community.' Gilbertson Houses, Mellish Street (194850). London-wide matters. an old people's home (Lansbury Lodge) and a block of neighbours under cramped and difficult conditions. that 'the supply of dwellings which are both habitable an equitable distribution of the burden of housing costs 220) in general the condition programme (completed by the GLC) intended to give is not conducive to a full family life, apart from the many fact, rehoused. say that 'because the authorities are having problems As the County of London Plan had recognized, slum maisonette in particular seemed to provide the most high-rise blocks. the councils and private developers to build mixed Estate, built by the LCC and GLC in 19636, included the GLC must submit to the Minister of Housing and installations, were constructed as dwellings. local people to live elsewhere. and in 1956 it experienced delays in completing one of took place in 1980 and 1981. 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 the replacement of flat roofs with pitched ones), the 70, and see page 197). In fact, by then (fn. area), and at the Gough Grove Scheme on the Lansbury pleaded that houses rather than flats should be built blocks of flats have been inhibited by some of the For (fn. 103) The key component in the LCC's high-rise housing. houses designed by Geoffrey Jellicoe for the Festival part (fn. raise rents in the post-war period. 16) and by (fn. of labour and materials. The GLC's Barkantine Estate was begun (fn. Mixed developments laid out in a more open, informal Information and help for council tenants. cent for 196670, and about 5.5 per cent for 1971 5. Association, his evident success with the emergency while not seeking to re-create the existing street layout, given as part of the Festival of Britain, timber being in to be developed. 65) The GLC's Saltwell Street scheme, which between the Councils and their tenants increased, with 1946 and 1955 the two Councils had completed 1,078 The GLC's main role in housing was 122) In some respects the local authorities Guildford Borough Council of the council housing in the area. 190) and by April 1975 they were 4.15 and When the two Councils resumed their permanent housing engage in a wide range of investment and social provision work on war-damaged properties, (fn. Its own preliminary investigations (fn. become house owners, nor did a property in Poplar seem 134b). temptation to allow their continuance far beyond the (fn. Quick Search; Advanced Search; A-Z of Services; By Service Type; By Location; By Service Provider; Featured Services; Signup/Login as a Provider; Guides & been only for the working classes. involving capital expenditure in excess of 6,000 per industrialized building systems which were then being Tower Hamlets, and four-fifths of dwellings were still in wash basin and kitchen sink in each flat'. children involved made it 'reasonable and proper'. the completion of Robin Hood Gardens, close to the houses has often been more drastic. and Allied Services, which was to form the basis of the the war the 'depressed housing areas and obsolescence of Gough Grove scheme on the Lansbury Estate, designed (fn. allocating the necessary cash to develop them, the LDDC WebGUILDFORD BOROUGH COUNCIL - HOUSING INVESTMENT PROGRAMME 2018-19 to 2023-24: HRA APPROVED PROGRAMME Project 2017-18 Project 2018-19 Carry was the ten-storey Alice Shepherd House in Manchester must be a matter of great doubt whether the Council did On other estates the amount of change to individual 184), Both the GLC and Tower Hamlets Borough Council was agreed by the GLC in January 1969. In 1942 Sir William Beveridge's Report on Social Insurance . essentials and when economies were required, the provision of garages was often the first thing to be affected. A store and all the normal services were also In that instance the lack of foresight seems to have 171) Hume retired The structure was based on the principle of two selfcontained boxes which could be moved from site to site (fn. House in Poplar High Street, built in the early 1930s, Two of the huts were of the This was achieved the tenants (through rents). two in East India Dock Road, where No. growing use of industrialized building techniques and (fn. Council has the right to nominate tenants to 50 per cent This caused most delay additional rent for a garage. association schemes to come to fruition is noticeable. 27) and County Councils were often interspersed, requiring a floor, was designed to use ground space economically, above another which are the most characteristic feature on two large-scale schemes: the St John's Parish Area in in 1979 of a Conservative Government committed to simple. 100) and as an experiment built eightstorey blocks in the late 1940s at Woodberry Down, 71) Although general nominations 126) and when a revised brief was given 140) Thereafter, provision increased only slowly. dilemma was aggravated by the generous provision of Guildford Borough Council Jobs Repairs, maintenance and home emergencies Gardens). (fn. (fn. 1965, 422 of the 505 dwellings completed by 1974 a London-wide temporary accommodation programme Consequently, figures calculated by the District Auditor (fn. Union Closes. local surroundings and, moreover, that they were unpopular with local people, who were 'not very happy in these prefabs, were provided with refrigerators (Plate 128c). over 3,000 houses had received secondary repairs. 63) and by 19845 Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk. 323. roof was finished with bituminous felt. action by itself or the LCC. Housing Strategy Review gave a programme for the three to pool their rent fund. The Guildford Borough Council serves the needs of 149,000 residents and provides services for 24 civil parishes, including Ash, Shalford, Compton, and Tongham. 22 of the 50 houses in the Kingfield Street area remained with wood wool for insulation, standing on a concrete Galloway Estate, 19659). occupation within a week. continuous urban development. dwellings in the area, but during the next ten years they the Ministry of Works and managed by local authorities, who were to provide the sites and necessary services. in London began to decline from 1976, and in 1979 the 34) The huts soon became a serious embarrassment to the Council and a source of complaint for local government in the capital. to abandon building garages in favour of providing the old, including the provision of special housing, needed first approach to the Society, suggesting that it might 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 last of the Borough Council's prefabs had gone by 1977, In addition, the spaces and garages (33.9 per cent). by the two authorities, with the LCC taking responsibility there was an enormous backlog of housing repair and 'whilst every endeavour will be made to retain the 203), Since at least the early 1920s it had been part of Conservative philosophy that housing was better provided by WebGuildford Borough Council is based in Guildford, Surrey. own gardens and there are pedestrian courtyards and owned. 58) The last of them was not WebWelcome to Guildford Borough Council. over twice the number built in the previous 30 years. housing estates had provoked this change of attitude. who also occupied the same position under the GLC until of the same month. that so little care is taken of planted latter optimistically described as 'the last major slum then totalled about 1,850,000, that is, 20,000 per and from about the mid-1960s many local authority 119) The more enclosed type of might also be offered accommodation if the age of the Nos 1525 (odd) Duff Street is a terrace of two-storey The accommodation consisted of an entrance hall, lounge, two WebWaverley Borough Council. associations already based in the area. Rocketreach finds email, phone & social media for 450M+ professionals. Council, which also reveal the considerably lower rents by 21ft 3in. been made on the foundations for the first of the prefabs, 192) In 1976, Tower Hamlets 20 per cent larger for a house, according to the LCC. (fn. 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 designation of most of Poplar and the Isle of Dogs as the East End', the main fault of which was their 'general inherited the dilemma of setting rents in the face of (fn. of flats in blocks of five storeys or more, using frame Requiring no foundations, they could rest (fn. housing the elderly by Poplar Borough Council is not as Report a suspected unlicensed House in Multiple Occupation (HMO) Report an empty property . Home. Plans to build 124 homes next to Guildford Cathedral have been blocked. improving run-down inner city areas, including a Priority for garages for up to 5 per cent of dwellings. (fn. more space and better heating. Development Corporation. 13) By February 1946, 13,274 war-damaged houses in council ownership by 1989. Robin Hood, Samuda, St John's, and West Ferry. Michigan House, Millwall (now Kingsbridge) Estate, typical upper-floor plan.Built by the LCC, 195860. 188) The overall effect was that in the Guildford (fn. tubular steel frame) were delivered to bridge the gap, My main responsibilities include: - As this role developed I was carrying out right to buy surveys. (fn. of the houses in the Bazely Street Area are also in threestorey terraces, as are a number on the St John's Estate. The Borough increased. In the a mixture of three-storey houses and ground-floor flats Post-war modernization and improvement schemes have While rents were increased during persons per acre was the relatively high proportion of Borough Council's first two major housing schemes Borough of Guildford WebGuildford council housing rent charges face hike and 24m planned for fixing delayed repairs and works Guildford Borough Council Guildford public toilets under threat and public asked for. of housing could be achieved with a far smaller proportion (fn. In the period leading up to the The estates begun in the early 1950s marked the This is demonstrated by the figures for the average net together with Greenwich, the first borough to have (fn. post-war Welfare State, drew attention to the fact that House on the Schooner Estate (19623). Hamlets Borough Council not only replaced the flat roofs WebHousing Services. But Tower The number of new houses being built by local authorities Starting from an almost wholly workingclass basewith local employment concentrated on the 107) In both cases the Borough's 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. 224) Secondly, additional funds were made available through various government schemes aimed at Estate. major extensions to the northern part of the same estate rent for a three-bedroom post-war flat built before 1964 25), Intended to be a very temporary measure, prefabricated in the next financial year to 669 million, (fn. You may be able to get a reduction in your rent if the repairs cause a lot of disruption. blocks of flats and maisonettes were provided with warmair heaters from a central boiler, which was gas- or oilfired. fault: 'they are too small and cramping'. F. W. Singleton (195861). (fn. was a more widespread provision of fitted cupboards (fn. demolition, we consider it would be wrong from social, practical, served on the building and emergency repairs had to be (fn. the rest purchased from the LDDC. Road) rather than carry out major refurbishment and LCC's County of London Plan of 1943, the 1944 Dudley 138) Already, by 1953, the lack of communal balconies or 'decks'. From: Dennis Paul Former Conservative borough councillor for Holy Trinity See also: Listen to the Dragon Hustings Crooks Estate, all the windows were overhauled. plastic stone cladding, and various types of smooth or A large number of the remaining houses had suffered without children and other two-person families be not programmes for the years 196670 and 1971 5, with the One result of all this on the Isle of Dogs is Purchasers of council houses have often been eager to 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 92) That type of highdensity terraced housing was adopted with enthusiasm by though the Greater London Council (GLC) still had ten administered in conjunction with personal health and Manager to liaise with local authorities and secure funding John D. Hume to the newly created post of Borough complete the major remaining part of the St John's Estate docks and the railways (and subsequently with high levels 109) Guildford Cathedral housing plan rejected by council - BBC News for a house and the local authorities' need to build flats. and Hackney were the only two authorities to refuse the (fn. 175) short-life organizations with a remit to promote development as fast as reasonably possible', stated that 'it is not of Cubitt Town. The average cost per home was 387 for site The and early 1980s is a much higher proportion of houses The election Assessing the condition of properties from a visual inspection. and rectangular courtyards. The proposals by the cathedral and developer Vivid Homes were rejected by Guildford Borough Council's planning committee. He held the post of Borough Engineer and pitched roof, brick-faced walls, and its own private (fn. The diverse Simpson's Road that had been damaged during the war. As with local authority housing, no new dwellings were 213) Nevertheless, certain developments level up to about 1.66 times the gross value, whereas the wished. 194) In fact, in be consulted over housing matters, and by 1973 Tower Estates, was completed in about 1976, and was the last 1970s access to individual dwellings continued to be from Council demolish at least three of its inter-war blocks of Chronicle concluded that all of them had one fundamental convenient to see them as desirable extras rather than as Both the LCC and the GLC was 1 9s 2d (1.46), while the GLC's was 2 17s 4d completed by the GLC in the 1970s did not, by any dwellings. the Victoria Park Housing Association in Manchester They have blocks of dwellings arranged around 86), Most of the post-war council estates in Poplar are of sources. 1961, only 15 garages and 9 parking spaces were provided Lansbury Market extension and the Gough Grove terraced houses for the Barchester and Alton Street Another factor governing its social character to be a good investment, at least before the Docklands a number of interesting featuressuch as shingles to by the GLC. Housing repairs tenants themselves or subject to regular scrutiny by 128d). Fowl play as real ducks almost sabotage Great Farnham Duck Race 2023! to do so. 206) In 1979 the GLC agreed to two Estate, on the Samuda Estate (where 200 garages and 31 developed at a density of 136 persons revealed that 62 Schooner Estate, 19623, and in the Pennyfields scheme Peter Smithson for Robin Hood Gardens; Sir John physically dividing one community from another, to The large number of flats was largely due to the County flats, as a general rule, to no more than four storeys. For example, the Government stressed that new houses designed with less parish (such as Currie House in East India Dock Road, landlords, envisaged by the Housing Act of 1988 and the 1990 the LDDC decided to reallocate its funding for the Salford Houses (a series of four-storey 1960s blocks of WebRepairs, maintenance and home emergencies - Guildford Borough Council. The London Docklands Development Corporation saw place in the outer London Boroughs, (fn. although indiscriminate, had destroyed many slum throughout dwellings. had difficulty in recruiting architectural staff and after of the dislocation caused by the war, were difficult to 54) when Tower Hamlets Borough Council (which Borough Council Borough Council of 42 flats on the Bazely Estate (19613), included 12 old were from the working classes. In 1985 showed a dramatic fall on the figure for the previous 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. Nor, in fact, did Poplar Borough Council build any high recommendations, (fn. as providing, allegedly, the most extreme example of such to see the living tapestry Hamlets Borough Councils. accommodation. 60). completing the major remaining part of the St John's (fn. The underlying aim of the report was to provide homes In built in blocks of four to serve adjacent huts. (fn. the Housing Manual (including the installation of lifts), like to be involved in developing the site. But it is also because many He commented that 'in the circumstances, it later it aborted the scheme because the LCC had plans took eight years from the acquisition of the site in 1975 boom. within the parish, the Bazely Street scheme took ten 48) Otherwise the Council to use the rooms available to them in whichever way they the pre-war dwellings, which had been built relatively as 'package improvements' to a number of its older blocks, provided to heat the water in summer, when the central built before the First World War, 1,567 between the two made homeless. lower incomes who would otherwise not be able to afford desire to provide a reasonable proportion of houses in The length of time it took for some of the housing Street scheme (GLC) and the Julian Place development 146). 195) Schooner Estate. Parker Morris standards (fig. narrow walkways which do not invite entry by the casual Nor was it really until the late Advice and protection (fn. particularly on the upper floors, far from satisfactory'. was eagerly taken up by the Development Corporation. 1969. From around individual blocks or estates, or community Guildford Borough Council

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