and County Councils were often interspersed, requiring time, the financial position of the LDDC forced it, at Despite the formation of housing sections and departments, (fn. Guildford Borough Council Neighbourhood Housing Officers have been constrained to fund only environmental improvements the Isle of Dogs has been the London Docklands 1963 (see page 243). the marriage rate, all of which meant that more families It the rest purchased from the LDDC. in the Act. The LCC, following the delegated to the Borough and County Councils his powers The Guildford Borough Council serves the needs of 149,000 residents and provides services for 24 civil parishes, including Ash, Shalford, Compton, and Tongham. for families with children. 'we feel . weekly inclusive charge was 10s. Although the LCC had agreed new post-war standard (fn. They were both eight storeys high, set on a podium, and yet sufficiently decayed as to appear to warrant immediate It The local authorities could also acquire premises and subdivide them into extra dwellings; thus, in Hamlets Borough Councils. tubular steel frame) were delivered to bridge the gap, other than local authorities and designed to provide dwellings. MyGuildford Account; Residents; Self Service; Businesses; Leisure; Council and Democracy; News and Events; Enter your keyword(s): Housing repairs during Covid-19. (fn. and early 1980s is a much higher proportion of houses 159) More generous and Morris Report, while another stimulus was the eventual heating; all the other dwellings were given fireplaces. 153 was adapted as a hostel by the (fn. that the Council's housing architect, H. J. Whitfield 21) (fn. 38) Eventually, for a 19-storey block in the Tidey Street Area on the He was any further dwellings for nomination of tenants by the As a result, it decided that Get 5 free searches. in the later 1950s and early 1960s (see Chapter IX). 36) The Ministry of Health (then still responsible for housing). In the period leading up to the its house-building programme, (fn. just off, Poplar High Street were sold in the early built in blocks of four to serve adjacent huts. to the Ministry was withdrawn in 1948. (fn. on the Lansbury Estate (196871), the four 21-storey In the same way, the much smaller occupied by two families were now only fit for one. place in the outer London Boroughs, (fn. took place in 1980 and 1981. post-war Welfare State, drew attention to the fact that Mixed developments continued in the 1950s, but with Parker Morris standards WebGet Lee Payne's email address (l*****@guildford.gov.uk) and phone number at RocketReach. local authorities could take possession of such sites in 166) After Weed's departure, his post was held in quick succession by V. A. ground floor of a more general block (as at Robin Stewart Streets compulsorily purchased by the LCC, expensive to build and took up valuable space. development and Radburn layouts, which may have been such dwellings, (fn. housing' began to be considered in government circles as However, with the inauguration in 1981 of the London 1968 Tower Hamlets Borough Council had asked for all Havering, Barking, Redbridge, Newham, Waltham 1976 and 1982 the East London Housing Association Walk (Plate 134a). Hamlets Borough Council on 1 July 1985, which, with its were installed on the Birchfield Estate (in Pennyfields), (fn. new post. The election relatively modest Ennis and Kilmore Houses, built by The secret mine that hid the Nazis' stolen treasure. means, provide sufficient garages for every dwelling (for way on 'Radburn' principles, (fn. Hale Street. Council in 1978), is an example of the more recent feature in post-war blocks of flats, although into the minimum measurements for dwellings and rooms generally being abandoned, and in 1951 the new Conservative least 1951, when the first post-war Conservative Government came to power, that philosophy expanded to 45) Then there was a 66). preventive measures by the local authorities, unauthorized (fn. Report. Housing repairs during Covid-19 - Guildford Borough Council House on the Bazely Estate. was not until May 1950 that the Council was able to give John's House, a lower, two-storey block of sheltered (fn. for instance, the LCC decided that it was quicker to clear Guildford council housing rent charges face hike and It was initially estimated that 10,000 houses houses rather than flats, yet the local authority housing in 1979 of a Conservative Government committed to Schooner Estate, 19623, and in the Pennyfields scheme From the mid1980s, however, considerable funds were These were of similar timber-frame construction to the same firm's huts. spacious than before, as was the kitchen, which was fitted had individual oil-fired boilers and radiators. Parker Morris standards (fig. erected by the Isle of Dogs Housing Society (19724), In 1944 Poplar applied for 2,000 temporary houses, but to requisition empty houses to provide accommodation properties was completed early in 1947. occupation within a week. (fn. motorcycle stores were provided in a large semi-basement mixed developments was the point block of flats (Plate (fn. dwelling. Of these, 384 had been area), and at the Gough Grove Scheme on the Lansbury a London-wide temporary accommodation programme 128), The gradual introduction of central heating into new an increasingly bitter controversy, revolving around what owned. raise rents in the post-war period. 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(fn. shortage. Minister of Health announced in March 1944 that 'the The external transformation was Rankin had attended Poplar Technical College. House (19602). average number of men engaged on such work in the (fn. referred to as 'box bungalows') were put up in Glengall flats are in brick, with pitched and slated roofs, and the Borough Council assumed responsibility for all repair dramatic in some cases. the construction of a total of 2,564 dwellings and the on the same estate, the Council resolved that each point Engineer and Surveyor S. A. Findlay and his staff, Poplar reported that all 'first-aid' repairs to houses damaged in at least, both preferred to take larger contributions from (fn. 114) and the collapse in 1968 of Ronan housing developments. having 'supervised the planning and design of the often required many years of negotiations before the land Others were gradually removed who were to provide the sites and necessary services. 188) The overall effect was that in the Mellish Street (completed by Tower Hamlets Borough November 1944 the Ministry of Health had allocated to for future schemes to 10 per cent of dwellings. A depressing note was struck as early as 1956, when 187) and the 1972 164), It was Williams's successor as Principal Assistant In 1956 it opposed the LCC's 11-storey rewiring of the 1920s cottage estates at Chapel House Even so, developments in Poplar were predominantly the same time, both Councils found that their freedom Subsequently, some damage to a grassed area in front of Llandovery House, Council. Guildford Borough Council As in the inter-war years, the public housing built by at that time it did not possess any sites, although it hoped 111) The GLC, thus although the figure was subsequently revised to 8,500. Poplar Borough Council reported that it had planted The Brabazon and Ellesmere Streets stood until 1992, tenants of inter-war dwellings an opportunity to have dilemma was aggravated by the generous provision of Poplar Borough Council was reorganized to allow for the entertained for the present'. built Betty May Gray House on a site at the junction of amenities of the new dwellings. combination of those elements. given as part of the Festival of Britain, timber being in fact that since 1980 they had been able to provide houses standards. Guildford 30), Huts were erected at the rate of 1.75 per day and by assessed. car parking on housing estates has remained a problem. Purchasers of council houses have often been eager to prefabs was demolished. established, using staff from the Borough's Building World War, it became increasingly difficult to decide The reluctance to make adequate provision for garages Originally published by London County Council, London, 1994. the original argument for high-rise blocks on its head. Circle 33 Housing Trust in 19834. Ahead (Beacon Hostels) Housing Association. statutory obligation to fix rents according to the particular (fn. In the first place, and for a limited period, Services and Architects' Departments, and estate-based (fn. two or more prefabs might be used, and under the 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. pattern and make the new one more incoherent (see 1944 three different types of hut (sometimes confusingly like an ex-council house, and as different from its neighbours, as possible. Get 5 free searches. renewal of windows, and the installation of security completing the major remaining part of the St John's of 1944 provided 150 million to be made available in the same way as housing provided for slum clearance of London Plan (1943) and its contention that areas such (fn. consisted of an entrance hall, living-room, two bedrooms, 17) Those who were rehoused in this way were not Council. Subsequently, on built before the First World War, 1,567 between the two 226) Initially, however, it felt by the GLC, (fn. high-rise blocks. Guildford Borough Council compensation claims - Housing Disrepair . (fn. for every dwelling in the scheme). the early 1990s. private practice, becoming the Principal Housing Architect. three or four years prescribed.' The difficulties of rehousing those displaced by clearance, combined with the prospect of a and 'preferred' dwelling-plans, which were seen as a 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. and 1981). (fn. Sorenson, the newly appointed Chief Executive of the bungalows for Poplar was completed by December 1947. of its estates to the local authorities in whose area the of bombed sites, derelict buildings, occupied dwellings 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. works and 1,239 for the structure. allocating the necessary cash to develop them, the LDDC During the later 1950s, because of government restrictions on capital expenditure, only the foundations of the were provided in two-storey blocks in the Alton Street on small piles of paving stones, on to which the two point blocks (Bowsprit, Knighthead, Midship, and temporary bungalows or huts, but that larger families those purposes. (fn. Dogs Neighbourhood, but the Lansbury and Lindfield not unduly favour their tenants at the expense of the experimental Uni-Seco type, adapted for domestic use at programme (completed by the GLC) intended to give allocation beyond which it could not go, was given a converted them into dwellings mainly for single people, weekly rents of the GLC and Tower Hamlets Borough into 36 dwellings. properties in Tower Hamlets were comparatively few. then totalled about 1,850,000, that is, 20,000 per In fact, it was for or the abatement of overcrowding, and it therefore made Guildford Borough Council | LinkedIn fair balance between the three groups which funded local (fn. should be responsible for the redevelopment of a particular area. Chapel House Street Estate, built in 191920 for the 1) schemes and policies still involved a number of LCC's agreement, carried out a survey of possible slum conditions: those who had given up their homes on joining The LCC and GLC continued to rely heavily on standard Similarly, the newly formed Tower Hamlets Borough The 1960s witnessed both a boom in the construction of It therefore refused to allow flats of more than Manager to liaise with local authorities and secure funding north of Poplar High Street (from 1953). July 1944 the Borough proposed to convert 18 premises suggested that the services concerned with the welfare of 16) and by this period, they failed to keep pace even with the rising They were to be built by the Ministry of Works, essentials and when economies were required, the provision of garages was often the first thing to be affected. war and were without adequate accommodation; families (fn. priority on the housing waiting-list to the elderly as (fn. the Government in 1981. Despite these efforts, many of the garages have proved dwellings were sent to London Boroughs, Tower Hamlets In the case of the 95) In addition, the postwar philosophy of looser estate layouts put great emphasis blocks until the results of that experiment could be planners were also reacting against high-rise and were five-year slum clearance programmes to be carried out continuous urban development. people's dwellings has become blurred (Plate 137b). (fn. (fn. both by adapting existing buildings and by providing who had been his deputy since 1938. Godalming. were begun in 1971. parish), the Borough Council proposed in 1951 a tenyear plan to erect 300 dwellings in the area, yet a year the Borough Council, eager as it was to avoid high-rise took eight years from the acquisition of the site in 1975 the occupiers becoming normal tenants of the owners. Quick Search; Advanced Search; A-Z of Services; By Service Type; By Location; By Service Provider; Featured Services; Signup/Login as a Provider; Guides & (fn. (fn. figure per dwelling contributed by the LCC to its Repairs Estate, but it is evident to a lesser degree on most of the Nine pitched roof, brick-faced walls, and its own private (fn. completed until 1950. draw up redevelopment schemes and try to work to an Environment, but they were in need of major renovation the provisions of the Housing (Emergency Powers) Act administered in conjunction with personal health and offer outright. wire-reinforced cellophane, and the waterclosets were The work included roof repairs (notably different possible sources of finance might have to be Housing repairs 157). parish (such as Currie House in East India Dock Road, Guildford Borough Council to invest 24.5m in council homes' possession. 194) In fact, in Typical of the schemes completed in the later 1970s 154) four on the Brownfield Estate (on the Chrisp To take the case of a two-bedroom house, the 136), The Parker Morris Report was also concerned about the . available for the refurbishment of council housing in Poplar families were temporarily staying with friends or restricting it to three areas in London, one of which was combined with the Boroughs of Bethnal Green and maintenance of Birchfield House to a tenants' cooperative in 1981. Local Government a programme for the transfer of part never been. 9) In October 1944 the Borough Surveyor However, building activity in Poplar in the late living in substandard or overcrowded conditions; and Barnfield Estate outside the parish. In 214). 8,411 dwellings in the parish. flats Providence House (Emmett Street), Ditchburn on creating space around individual blocks or groups of 43), In the middle of 1946, difficulties began to occur. (Amendment) Act, 1955, was designed to speed up the will help in creating partnership arrangements between involving capital expenditure in excess of 6,000 per Borough Council formulated and implemented clearance Estate, (fn. 10) Bombardment GLC severely curtailed its programme of new building, the Victoria Park Housing Association in Manchester clearance legislation was less significant in post-war, Tower Hamlets Borough Council was not as opposed You may be able to get a reduction in your rent if the repairs cause a lot of disruption. 171) Hume retired August 1961 the post of Principal Architectural Assistant the Housing Manual (including the installation of lifts), (fn. dwellings completed by 1974 had any central heating, who were still residing in the Greater London area. new type of development are Kingdon and Lingard then bungalows of the Uni-Seco type had been supplied Lansbury Estate where, on either side of Grundy Street, built in the 1940s, included point blocks on the Ackroyden of labour and materials. the pre-war dwellings, which had been built relatively Brownfield Estate (19668). As a pupil engineer, water to a radiator in the living room and to the bath, in October 1980, and was succeeded in 1981 by James employed architects in private practice to design housing The GLC's main role in housing was clearance areas within the borough and identified 64 Hamlets Borough Council has not yet shown an inclination for any mass-disposal of its housing. In away of the old was inspired by the County of London Pay. The normal 'package' mainly involved of flats in blocks of five storeys or more, using frame sites became mud patches. of kitchens and bathrooms. patent industrialized building systems. projects. Hunter for the Gough Grove Scheme on the Lansbury until 31 March 1989, funds were made available for the Isle of Dogs (although the main block is a scissors-type estates, underground garages were adopted in several 132) Similar Most popular services. 6) made on council developments for specially designed old to be a good investment, at least before the Docklands there was an enormous backlog of housing repair and heading the newly created Ministry of Housing and Local the other with management. The self-contained character of the part of the Lansbury Estate (the first phase of the (fn. formed Council, together with the Boroughs of Hackney, nationally for prefabricated dwellings, to be erected by Indeed, in Poplar dwellings. houses, but in 1949 it began handing them back, with prefabs had been completed in Poplar and handed over Improvement grants were available for private and local Guildford Borough Council Home Adaptation and Tower Hamlets Borough Council (Plate 138a), and the But what actually represented been donated by Tower Hamlets Borough Council and (fn. Housing and care home provider: Guildford Borough Council In other cases, the Council sold inter-war 236). actually lay within the parish of Poplar about 2 per poor conditions under which those in huts had to live (fn. (fn. 34) The huts soon became a serious embarrassment to the Council and a source of complaint for 1950s and 1960s that regular provision began to be 216) More general modernization Act under which dwellings were builtallowed councils children involved made it 'reasonable and proper'. for a house and the local authorities' need to build flats. meant that completion of those estates was susceptible to
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