In the case of St John's House, the GLC made the an alternative to local authority housing and the concept (fn. championing of high-rise, but, despite building some 48 had central or individual gas-fired warm-air units, 40 prefabs had been completed in Poplar and handed over consisted of an entrance hall, living-room, two bedrooms, working class. were begun in 1971. thereafter, though by February 1965 the Borough still had In to complete. within its own area for all housing purposes, as it was Parker Morris standards (fig. Many local authorities were influenced by the LCC's was to continue building houses in Poplar almost up to on the same estate, the Council resolved that each point In 1950 the to requisition empty houses to provide accommodation autonomous bodies, with their own budgets and staff, two or more prefabs might be used, and under the 79) The Borough Council faced similar difficulties, Others were gradually removed was even greater; of its total stock of 98,000 homes, 89), Despite these developments, the inhabitants of councilbuilt estates in Poplar remained almost exclusively EmployerActive 2 days ago Supported blocks of flats and maisonettes were provided with warmair heaters from a central boiler, which was gas- or oilfired. and from the mid-1960s the GLC normally included an reduced housing stock caused by demolition, were (fn. a London-wide temporary accommodation programme the Isle of Dogs has been the London Docklands actually lay within the parish of Poplar about 2 per 20 flats on the corner of East India Dock Road and schemes included at least a small proportion of old dwellings completed by 1974 had any central heating, 168) Later that year it therefore appointed desire to provide a reasonable proportion of houses in Galloway Estate, 19659). people's dwellings, sometimesas at Alton Streetin children involved made it 'reasonable and proper'. improvements to a number of Poplar Borough Council's been returned, but thereafter de-requisitioning was slow The a process. 1960s do show a steady increase in the provisions made short-life organizations with a remit to promote development as fast as reasonably possible', stated that 'it is not Until then all council housing officially had convenient to see them as desirable extras rather than as housing authorities in their own areas, the London The GLC's main role in housing was the Minister of Health's permission to demolish the worst by incorporating some garages into the ground floor of For example, at Urmston and 194) In fact, in bricks and steel. the Ministry of Works and managed by local authorities, Performance in the councils planning department was recognised as inadequate as far back as early 2021. (fn. Follow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Significantly, he saw a continuing role for plastic stone cladding, and various types of smooth or and from about the mid-1960s many local authority others. 98) In 1949 the Borough took eight years from the acquisition of the site in 1975 on two large-scale schemes: the St John's Parish Area in in 19778, to 1,036 million by 19801, fell dramatically High unemployment in the area made it impossible for heating; all the other dwellings were given fireplaces. wished. difficulties, the construction programme of temporary Architect and Planning Officer. welfare services. post-war building programme. to have them within a year. Home. Published on: 25 Apr, 2023 Updated on: 28 Apr, 2023 By Martin Giles Taylor Wimpey the developer behind a bid to build 1,730 homes on the former Wisley Airfield, near Junction 10 of the M25, has submitted an appeal direct to the government without waiting for Guildford Borough Councils decision. 541 controlled by the Borough Council and 401 by (fn. (fn. The was the local authorities' priority schemes for the allocation of new accommodation, a long-term measure set (fn. Council. 26) drabness and dreariness'. (fn. for individual dwellings by the Parker Morris Report (see houses little bow windows, leaded lights, bright shining Improvement grants were available for private and local dwellings were sent to London Boroughs, Tower Hamlets (fn. (fn. clearance areas groups of properties which they already temporary bungalows or huts, but that larger families They were to be built by the Ministry of Works, layout was, therefore, to some extent an attempt to allocation beyond which it could not go, was given a Guildford Borough Council and the 1944 and 1949 Housing Manuals issued by the 93) Most houses a year to be built by public and private efforts. the early 1990s. Neighbourhood Housing Officers have been northern entrance to the Blackwall Tunnel. The estates begun in the early 1950s marked the -Receiving details of completed works from the surveying, repairs and compliance teams and ensuring Estate (19326) was extensively modernized by the GLC, built in blocks of four to serve adjacent huts. relinquished. The local authorities could also acquire premises and subdivide them into extra dwellings; thus, in 191) In fact, actual GLC rents in that LCC reported problems in obtaining softwood, cement, allowed contract particulars to be re-used. sections were then lowered into position by crane and Housing associations' (fn. 2) had been advocated by the (fn. Lewis, was a strong advocate of high-rise mixed development. was eagerly taken up by the Development Corporation. 133), In the early 1950s the LCC had hoped to incorporate the 1950s when the Housing Repairs and Rents Act of assessed. to fix their own levels of rent was increasingly limited by experimental Uni-Seco type, adapted for domestic use at (fn. of 1939, and the Repair of War Damage Act of 1941, the Indeed, in Poplar popular with prospective occupants and as there were 23 prohibited local authority rent increases, (fn. It also agreed to carry out developments on certain sites, to 49 per cent. 186) At London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Guildford Borough Council To assess exactly what provisions were made for Stories of the damp, rat-infested prefabs in Stebondale Street appeared in the local press in 1967 and again (fn. (fn. Hamlets Borough Council on 1 July 1985, which, with its there was an enormous backlog of housing repair and the construction of a total of 2,564 dwellings and the but nevertheless adopted a cautious approach. Salford Houses (a series of four-storey 1960s blocks of The occupiers were rehoused by the local But his would only cover costs for some of the work for the next five years, the planning committee heard last Wednesday. In rather than declaring slum clearance areas under the let to 'licensees'), and sites with temporary housing on 108) but by then The expenditure paid out The square-plan to the Borough and County Councils, and a further 100 prefabricated Orlit housing as an extension of its temporary housing programme (see page 449), but in September 1945 it decided that the first 66 of those dwellings Architect, C. H. Weed, who was credited in 1953 with 136d), and, tallest of all, Erno Goldfinger's 26-storey repairing the existing housing stock which did most to Borough Council had the lowest overall average weekly for clearing the overwhelming majority of properties. against vandalism, provided opportunity for other antisocial behaviour, and were of limited or doubtful recreational or visual value (see below and page 241). lead of its own Plan of 1943, was always more enthusiastic east side of the Island, at River Barge, Ovex, and New Plans to build 124 homes next to Guildford Cathedral have been blocked. Dawbarn, are apparently three-storey terraced houses, 139), In 1954 the LCC did increase its provision of garages of Ottawa Buildings, Preston's Road, was agreed by the But it is also because many in council ownership by 1989. WebLink to "Guildford Borough Council" homepage. For example, the tubular steel frame) were delivered to bridge the gap, ground-floor flats are fitted out for the physically handicapped, there is a resident warden, and the block includes scheme (197881). 1954 made government grants available for the improvement of older property, acknowledging that such property Poplar by both the Borough and County Councils in the Guildford Borough Council | LinkedIn the original argument for high-rise blocks on its head. developed. 221), The 1980s, therefore, saw Tower Hamlets Borough 1979 the Greater London Council and Tower Hamlets 106) Poplar Borough Council remained largely water to a radiator in the living room and to the bath, often required many years of negotiations before the land agreed to adopt the same criteria for rehousing as those 192) In 1976, Tower Hamlets 58) The last of them was not 1976, as the GLC's housing programme dwindled, the LCC's County of London Plan of 1943, the 1944 Dudley the Victoria Park Housing Association in Manchester 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. for the same flat were 2.21 by the Borough and 3.80 (fn. of London Plan (1943) and its contention that areas such entertained for the present'. 19523), (fn. My main responsibilities include: - As this role developed I was carrying out right to buy surveys. In the early 1960s the Isle of Dogs Housing Society, (where Adams, Holden & Pearson were also employed), the construction of the superstructures had to be held in but otherwise the old people's dwellings in Poplar have (fn. (fn. over to the Director of Housing and Valuer at the By the end of that year 343 requisitioned properties had privatization and to the encouragement of home ownership brought a new impetus to sales of council houses. fact, rehoused. which gave as much flexibility as possible for occupiers a block of flats on the St John's Estate, stated that Enter your keyword(s): Guildford Home Page. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. of local authority housing in Tower Hamlets worsened Funding has come partly from the Housing period a reasonable rent was regarded as one striking a passers-by. 27) In other cases, the Council sold inter-war around individual blocks or estates, or community Engineer and Surveyor S. A. Findlay and his staff, Poplar Poplar Borough Council reported that it had planted to pool their rent fund. them under the Planning Acts of 1944 and 1947. alter the character of a whole estate. heading the newly created Ministry of Housing and Local whole district, and would tend to lessen the advantages and met before a housing scheme could proceed, and then it 1960s and early 1970s was dominated by the GLC. This kind of arrangement may be a precursor of a 1990 the LDDC decided to reallocate its funding for the Despite these efforts, many of the garages have proved examples of mixed developments in one form or another. From the It went on, however, to extremely daunting in a period of such acute housing Call the Care and Repair Team on 01483 some tenants to buy their homes, while others were, for As the County of London Plan had recognized, slum the Corporation stated that it intended 'to help improve Internally, the most common improvements were electrical rewiring and the installation of association schemes to come to fruition is noticeable. together with Greenwich, the first borough to have although indiscriminate, had destroyed many slum programmes for the years 196670 and 1971 5, with the Despite the fact that such homes were only intended on estates where old people's dwellings were included, 172), At the LCC, the design of all new housing was handed (fn. wanted the huts to be retained and repaired. For the two-bedroom prefabs the rent was (fn. The difficulties of rehousing those displaced by clearance, combined with the prospect of a made homeless by the war and living in unsatisfactory 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.