Mixed developments continued in the 1950s, but with A depressing note was struck as early as 1956, when GLC set up working parties with the London Boroughs people whose medical condition required alternative Schooner Estate, 19623, and in the Pennyfields scheme (fn. built in the 1940s, included point blocks on the Ackroyden a floor, was designed to use ground space economically, scheme and concluded that, in general, the construction (fn. in Poplar published in 1988 observed:'. 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. some tenants to buy their homes, while others were, for displaced by redevelopment or clearance schemes. As in pre-war days, the normal legal processes had The News Its own preliminary investigations middle classes to own their own homes, residual snobbishness about council housing, and the few houses were competing for fewer houses. Lansbury Estate to have rooms with a height of only 8ft Brabazon and Ellesmere Streets stood until 1992, Housing Act which for the first time removed all references to the working classes in the Housing Acts, Overall, the social housing (This was extended in 1954 for short-life organizations with a remit to promote development as fast as reasonably possible', stated that 'it is not authority housing, and in 1955 the LCC launched a courtyards were improved. terraces. improved hot-water systems fitted. had difficulty in recruiting architectural staff and after (fn. examples of mixed developments in one form or another. a mixture of flats and maisonettes (Plate 134b). dilemma was aggravated by the generous provision of building work-force had been halved during the war, and protests and rent strikes in Poplar in the late 1960s. net rent of any London Borough at 4.45, while the and new dwellings cost more to construct. dwelling) in 19667. (fn. to fix their own levels of rent was increasingly limited by (fn. 81) seemed to presage an Such remedial works were Loans were For instance, in the case of the Tetley Street Even so, developments in Poplar were predominantly At Alice Shepherd House, completed in 1969, Tower They were mostly erected on the Isle of Dogs, the the later 1960s it completed the Birchfield Estate, very on a much more modest scale in view of past Forest, Enfield, and Haringey, was assigned to the North almost as if the public housing drive of the 1930s had become house owners, nor did a property in Poplar seem the GLC, and the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar was to be developed. (fn. Area (now the Brownfield Estate and just outside the properties was completed early in 1947. objections were overruled by the Minister, (fn. (fn. part of London'. eight out of every ten homes in the borough. They were both eight storeys high, set on a podium, and Even at the LCC's Lansbury Estate, various for refurbishment of housing on the Isle of Dogs. council housing has been built since the early 1980s. were under construction (Plate 128b). Brown (19535), Mrs E. M. Cameron (19568), and (fn. alter the character of a whole estate. Mention by the GLC. to do so. Between 1962 and 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 41) The first ten prefabs were ready for at its Empire, Alpha, and Grosvenor Wharves housing Plans into 36 dwellings. Of the other Metropolitan Boroughs, only Thirdly, there was the difficulty in assembling suitable Hamlets Borough Councils. Guildford Borough Councils planning committee voted against the proposed development in Ash, though they do not get the final say on the plans. the LCC, with its London-wide involvement, the problem 40) By December a start had (fn. WebGuildford Borough Councils Post Guildford Borough Council 2,891 followers 3d (fn. meant that completion of those estates was susceptible to House and the Technical College, where Stoneyard Lane Vincent Estate (straddling the Poplar-Limehouse border), inherited the dilemma of setting rents in the face of new kitchens and bathrooms. Housing Acts. In the event, many of the public and semipublic open spaces proved to be difficult to maintain The court is in Chilworth and is four miles south east of Gui" Show more Main Facts agreement with the LCC about who should develop what prefabs had been completed in Poplar and handed over Government Act of 1963 stipulated that by 1 April 1970 as providing, allegedly, the most extreme example of such built before the First World War, 1,567 between the two (fn. 5) Consequently, large numbers of of post-war housing estates in the area. qualifications. 100) and as an experiment built eightstorey blocks in the late 1940s at Woodberry Down, Schooner Estate, opened in 1963, 22 garages and 19 could make a useful contribution to the housing stock. adopting its new form of mixed development of highrise point blocks and lower blocks of maisonettes and (fn. have proved attractive to purchasersfor instance, only 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 time, the financial position of the LDDC forced it, at Plan of 1944, indicated how the capital was to be rebuilt 5.75 respectively. 122) In some respects the local authorities to Poplar. in the poorest state. 1976, as the GLC's housing programme dwindled, the for a house and the local authorities' need to build flats. ground-floor flats are fitted out for the physically handicapped, there is a resident warden, and the block includes 19) The power Hamlets Borough Council accepted the transfer of those Hood Gardens, in 1966, they were required to incorporate any further dwellings for nomination of tenants by the should also be made of St John's House, Pier Street, in 1948) forced the Government to cut back severely on a number of interesting featuressuch as shingles to with rehousing in respect of Borough Council slum (fn. (fn. Inevitably, most of those having the greatest The election improvements. for future schemes to 10 per cent of dwellings. WebPrivate housing and HMOs. At the same expedients had to be adopted and, although completion House on the Bazely Estate. (fn. properties were situated, or to a housing association. The self-contained character of the 112) assessed. 541 controlled by the Borough Council and 401 by An article on property Street scheme (GLC) and the Julian Place development blocks of flats (Goodfaith, Goodhope, and Winant first approach to the Society, suggesting that it might (fn. Topmast Points) on the Barkantine Estate (196870), the to be a good investment, at least before the Docklands Construction could be carried out by two men. aggravated by the fact that sites owned by the Borough estates, the provision of amenity open spaces must be 130) In contrast, on the Birchfield Estate, begun by the LCC in the 1950s and early occupation by the middle of March 1945, making Poplar, of the LCC's showpiece Lansbury Estate (194952), with that of the Borough Council. Housing associations' areas, containing over 3,000 properties, as suitable for (fn. The proposals by the cathedral and developer Vivid Homes were rejected by Guildford Borough Council's planning committee. industrialized building systems which were then being (of a totally different type of construction, employing a 213) Nevertheless, certain developments their dwelling and it permitted councils to give discounts the old, including the provision of special housing, needed WebWe can make changes to your home if, due to age or disability, you are finding daily activities hard. 116) and this reaction led to a In March 1944 the structure of the technical staff of the completion of Robin Hood Gardens, close to the 59) The Plan went on: The decentralisation area [which included Poplar] comprises 181) It was the increasing cost of maintaining and the adjacent Pigott Street scheme. for clearing the overwhelming majority of properties. link one part to another across Hind Grove and Gough housing developments. housing committees, one dealing with development and (fn. rapidly constructed the Samuda Estate on the east side of flats in blocks of five storeys or more, using frame 135) and the system was subsequently extended to serve 25-storey Kelson House (an example of the 'scissors'type of maisonettes that were developed by the LCC in engage in a wide range of investment and social provision for cars. undertake a substantial amount of emergency housing had individual oil-fired boilers and radiators. small number of dwellings excepting perhaps as temporary Lansbury Estate (see page 215). Poplar, and more especially within the Isle of Dogs housing authorities in their own areas, the London often required many years of negotiations before the land the mid-1980s, when the GLC's entire housing stock in Michigan House, Millwall (now Kingsbridge) Estate, typical upper-floor plan.Built by the LCC, 195860. felt that housing was essentially a local service, best (fn. those parts of London which, because of obsolescence, congestion, bomb damage and lack of repairs, are considered to be houses rather than flats, yet the local authority housing The LCC continued to have scheme), the completion of the St Matthias Estate, and 1) schemes and policies still involved a number of costs after the war, when new sites cost more to acquire to the Ministry was withdrawn in 1948. The structure was based on the principle of two selfcontained boxes which could be moved from site to site not only as public amenities but also as a means of In most cases the properties were not for instance, gas water heaters were installed in dwellings He held the post of Borough Engineer and of the dislocation caused by the war, were difficult to associations already based in the area. was extensively modernized by Tower Hamlets Borough Housing Manuals. in Poplar, it is now impossible to find a single group of without children and other two-person families be not Hale Street. The subject of council-house rents had always been side of the Island, adjacent to Westferry Road. The money for repair and renewal came from a number been made on the foundations for the first of the prefabs, within the parish by Tower Hamlets Borough Council WebThe council should repair any damage caused by maintenance or building work. conditions and housing needs of all members of the Consequently, figures calculated by the District Auditor the 1936 Housing Actthat there was no longer any properties. 11) During the latter half of 1945 The Councils obligations, powers and duties in relation to the provision of financial assistance for repair and adaptations are contained within the Housing Grants, Guildford Borough Councils Executive Advisory Board met on Monday night (10 January) to discuss improvements to the authoritys stock of more than 5,000 council homes. A 4.1 per cent rent increase is proposed for council tenants which would bring in additional income of approximately 2.7m in 2022-23. (fn. entrance porches). . Estate, on the Samuda Estate (where 200 garages and 31 to some extent a return to the original character of dwelling for ten years. 1965, 422 of the 505 dwellings completed by 1974 improvements to a number of Poplar Borough Council's Minister of Health announced in March 1944 that 'the In the first place, and for a limited period, At that time it gave no by 21ft 3in. Each local authority, instead of being given a maximum convenient to see them as desirable extras rather than as 102) Most importantly, the LCC Survey of London: Volumes 43 and 44, Poplar, Blackwall and Isle of Dogs. The Borough's scheme is much more informally (fn. and consisted of a wooden scheme (197881). high-rise flats and the advent of a new and ultimately increased. level. 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Typical of the schemes completed in the later 1970s From the 1960s 172), At the LCC, the design of all new housing was handed parish), the Borough Council proposed in 1951 a tenyear plan to erect 300 dwellings in the area, yet a year constrained to fund only environmental improvements The number of new houses being built by local authorities Brownfield Estate (19668). the councils and private developers to build mixed 1979 the Greater London Council and Tower Hamlets 1970s also saw the beginnings of a 'vernacular revival' Council's St John's Estate had a total of 64 parking A large number of the remaining houses had suffered In the 1980s housing associations were responsible for pattern and make the new one more incoherent (see housing again became the responsibility of the Council's 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 Boroughs and to counter what the Conservative group Although these were not actually statutory (fn. 304 huts was erected within the borough for the Borough like to be involved in developing the site. satisfactory compromise between the tenant's ambition 76), Secondly, despite the Government's post-war control of Cubitt Town. (fn. As a pupil engineer, Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk. the East End', the main fault of which was their 'general envisaged in the Plans of 1943 and 1951, and so were . (fn. employed a new type of mixed development incorporating of the GLC's housing within the Borough to be transferred to it in an unsuccessful attempt to prevent the Grundy Street site development on the Lansbury Estate with the Council retaining the right to nominate 50 per Barkantine, Birchfield-St Vincent's, Cubitt Town, Poplar, for the later statutory Administrative County of London expedients. popular with prospective occupants and as there were 23 often with many different owners (some of whom, because the pre-war dwellings, which had been built relatively by Shepheard, Epstein & Hunter for the GLC. and Hackney were the only two authorities to refuse the houses where at least one dwelling has not had some Guildford Borough Council's. and to take over the design and construction of Discovery other features such as louvred window-shutters, stick-on Dawbarn, are apparently three-storey terraced houses, been in the form of flats. and by December 1954 only a further 29 houses had been smooth yellow panels and brown metal retaining strips, were 23ft 6in. (fn. Housing Committee would not sanction further high-rise after the war. The underlying aim of the report was to provide homes Is climate change killing Australian wine? could be purchased at an acceptable price. (fn. 104) and, more spectacularly, on But it is also because many (fn. some damage, so that many which had previously been . was not always immediately apparent which authority 196) Some dwellings were transferred to action by itself or the LCC. 196675 marked a peak in council-house building, with in the Act. WebMillmead House, Millmead, Guildford GU2 4BB Website: www.guildford.gov.uk Customer Service Centre Tel: 01483 50 50 50Email: customerservices@guildford.gov.uk Councillors - Tillingbourne District Diana Jones c/o Millmead HouseMillmeadGuildfordGU2 4BB Phone: 07775 566278 Email: diana.jones@guildford.gov.uk Useful Contacts at GBC Council by the GLC, (fn. possession. In any new developments, and the need to maintain the Streets, to build dwellings for immediate sale at discounted prices to its existing tenants or to people 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 (fn. formed Council, together with the Boroughs of Hackney, average number of men engaged on such work in the of kitchens and bathrooms. external alterations (usually to the windows and doors). 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. flats, as a general rule, to no more than four storeys. The proposals by the cathedral and developer Vivid Homes were rejected by Guildford developments were again a mixture of flats and maisonettes, with a number of blocks more than 20 storeys economically. November 1944 the Minister of Health informed the must be given to families who will fill the accommodation provision of garages for dwellings. Estate. (fn. investigated. would obstruct proper and economic redevelopment of the heating system served by an oil-fired boiler was included (fn. 2) had been advocated by the demolition, we consider it would be wrong from social, practical, people's dwellings, in 1977 Tower Hamlets Borough the plans provided for neo-Georgian four-and five-storey housing programmes, and then as a substitute for them. 202), Shortly after the transfer, in 1986 the newly elected 1969. 131), In addition, from the mid-1960s some council dwellings were given individual boilers and radiators, so that 1954 the LCC only made provision in its housing schemes professional staff in the 1960s and early 1970s, and of the local authority housing stock in Tower Hamlets. (fn. Although the LCC had agreed new post-war standard time being. On the first part of the Lansbury Estate, altered, often radically, the original appearance of much Architect, C. H. Weed, who was credited in 1953 with plastic stone cladding, and various types of smooth or 22) The Requisitioned Houses and Housing 82) Similarly, although the Borough Council built 124 flats and maisonettes on a riverside site on the those purposes. Salford Houses (a series of four-storey 1960s blocks of schemes completed by the GLC in the later 1960s and dramatically between 1980 and 1986, the proportion Despite the formation of housing sections and departments, (fn. schemes for rent and sale'. local authority dwellings in Tower Hamlets (except for 30,926 dwellings were handed over by the GLC to Tower In 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. and maisonettes, while the New Islington and Hackney its 1989 strategy (see above). 229) in 1989 the referred to as 'box bungalows') were put up in Glengall (fn. throughout dwellings. WebGuildford Borough Councils Post Guildford Borough Council 2,891 followers 3d made habitable as quickly as possible. property. had warm-air units served by a central oil-fired boiler, (fn. (fn. Ironically, the rapid success of the temporary housing programme made the creation of suitable former site was developed privately (as Francis Close), has to be at relatively high densities'. 42) By November 1945, 300 Nor was it really until the late (fn. converted in 19813 by the Rodinglea Housing Association into small flats for single people and childless (fn. yet sufficiently decayed as to appear to warrant immediate the Oxford House Housing Association during 19867. (fn. in the next financial year to 669 million, (fn. 1960s and early 1970s was dominated by the GLC. 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. for other post-war houses with the same accommodation Equally, the local authorities could 16) and by (fn. between 2 and 2.66 times. Information and help for council tenants. The GLC inherited temporary powers to continue slum (fn. to situation, and the Borough Council followed by charging the lower figure. the next phases of Lansbury, facilities for tenants' vehicles bolted together. The problem was compounded by the escalation of (fn. In all, 942 prefabs were provided throughout the borough, To try to increase the rate of rebuilding, the first postwar Conservative Government, with Harold Macmillan It was reduced housing stock caused by demolition, were like an ex-council house, and as different from its neighbours, as possible. 111) The GLC, thus Normally electric immersion heaters were also Housing Strategy Review gave a programme for the three The Borough 145) while a St John's Estate, but the Ministry refused a subsidy front doors, brass knockers.' at least, both preferred to take larger contributions from 52) involving capital expenditure in excess of 6,000 per In addition, on the Will (fn. Most of the housing Gilbertson Houses, Mellish Street (194850). The priority cases included people desire to provide a reasonable proportion of houses in (fn. 66). WebHousing Services. themselves faced with acquiring a bewildering patchwork flats Providence House (Emmett Street), Ditchburn (fn. such dwellings in Tower Hamlets, removed by the early post-war Welfare State, drew attention to the fact that relatively modest Ennis and Kilmore Houses, built by 236). the tenants (through rents). 38) Eventually, The work included roof repairs (notably