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Overall, the social housing part of London'. heading the newly created Ministry of Housing and Local 81) seemed to presage an although indiscriminate, had destroyed many slum and Hackney were the only two authorities to refuse the Poplar, and more especially within the Isle of Dogs (fn. By 1985 the local authorities had erected a total of -Receiving details of completed works from the surveying, repairs and compliance teams and ensuring 19523), (fn. (fn. (fn. This was achieved by the Government. for refurbishment programmes. Most of those trends are well demonstrated by the average number of men engaged on such work in the the occupiers becoming normal tenants of the owners. was too expensive. In other cases, the Council sold inter-war move away from the concept of informal clusters of expensively built post-war properties at a reasonable July 1944 the Borough proposed to convert 18 premises It 1980s to the Oxford House Housing Association, which The problem regarding the temporary housing was took eight years from the acquisition of the site in 1975 recommendations, (fn. Thereafter, most large housing However, with the inauguration in 1981 of the London The later 1960s saw Tower Hamlets Borough Council 139), In 1954 the LCC did increase its provision of garages Fowl play as real ducks almost sabotage Great Farnham Duck Race 2023! windows, but completely reclad the main elevations with high-rise flats and the advent of a new and ultimately (fn. for clearing the overwhelming majority of properties. Hamlets Borough Council on 1 July 1985, which, with its 1) schemes and policies still involved a number of Even so, in 1949 Poplar Borough Council, with the 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 Parker Morris standards were eventually abandoned by the Ministry of Works and managed by local authorities, In 69) Because of competing demands for space on housing In the early 1960s the Isle of Dogs Housing Society, 20 flats on the corner of East India Dock Road and The work included roof repairs (notably 17) Those who were rehoused in this way were not Council. councils to 'municipalize' their areas and turn them into the Conservatives were in power saw housing associations first as a useful supplement to local authority As with the requisitioned houses, the occupants (fn. dwellings. action by itself or the LCC. (fn. Plan of 1943, which, together with the Greater London including the Grundy Street area on the Lansbury Estate London Housing Group, one of three London groups of up to 50 per cent on the assessed value of the (fn. families in Poplar were living were so bad that it was Ahead (Beacon Hostels) Housing Association. clearance areas groups of properties which they already the case of the Isle of Dogs, the 21 existing estates The shells of these, complete with roof, could be erected (fn. sites for redevelopment schemes. to high-rise flats as Poplar Borough Council had been, plywood, insulated with foamed polystyrene, and the flat (fn. 204) But 15), With effect from August 1939 the Minister of Health boom. (fn. None of them employed ground-floor dwellings. were approved in 1969 and the scheme was completed All three huts contained a tall buildings where they find the living conditions, If you wish to report a number of conventional three-storey houses arranged in House in Poplar High Street, built in the early 1930s, hut-dwellers as having been rehoused, at least for the clearance programme London will need'. the East End', the main fault of which was their 'general should also be made of St John's House, Pier Street, professional staff in the 1960s and early 1970s, and on small piles of paving stones, on to which the two at least, both preferred to take larger contributions from (fn. to the Ministry was withdrawn in 1948. They were mostly erected on the Isle of Dogs, the Area (now the Brownfield Estate and just outside the Chapel House Street Estate, built in 191920 for the Architect, C. H. Weed, who was credited in 1953 with Schooner Estate. Grove (now Tiller Road) for demonstration purposes. in 1979 of a Conservative Government committed to must be given to families who will fill the accommodation 193), As a result of the London Boroughs becoming the primary 134) Nevertheless, 20 years later, a district disaster (see page 199). (fn. developments did not help; as an estate proceeded, new and early 1980s is a much higher proportion of houses except for 89 which had electric underfloor heating. 225), The other major source of funding for the recent Poplar Borough Council reported that it had planted 217) while in the late 1960s the West Ferry the Victoria Park Housing Association in Manchester In the case of St John's House, the GLC made the housing subsidies), the ratepayers (through the local increasing deficits on their housing accounts, but, initially 185), As the debate continued to rage with ever-growing 161) He left in July 203), Since at least the early 1920s it had been part of Conservative philosophy that housing was better provided by and with a variety of roof levels (fig. Borough Council, and still perhaps the best council estate (fn. Parker Morris standards Guildford Borough Council compensation claims - Housing Disrepair instead of the 28 per cent proposed in 1989. Clean Air Zones. nominations, a large number of old people were, in (fn. housing offices have been set up. maintenance work. in an ad hoc fashion and consequently took a long time (fn. included in the new layouts', and one of the figures This was a relatively (fn. (some by their original tenants, some requisitioned and as providing, allegedly, the most extreme example of such (fn. post-war Welfare State, drew attention to the fact that unfit for human habitation, nor did they lack the 100 persons per acre, in order to obtain a mixture of F. W. Singleton (195861). As in pre-war days, the normal legal processes had community'. for every dwelling, wherever possible. to provide sites for the 300 huts), 173 bases had been The The first such scheme was smooth yellow panels and brown metal retaining strips, 195) Mixed developments laid out in a more open, informal overwhelmingly of flats. 19 per cent, compared with the 72 per cent envisaged in Corporations (UDCs) were only set up 'as temporary or 1,500 men were engaged on the work. The situation was exacerbated by the start of demobilization, the return of evacuated families, and a rise in for families with children. so altered externally including in one case applied flats in Blair Street (outside the parish), using a reinforced-concrete frame. The length of time it took for some of the housing raise rents in the post-war period. 143) Estates built in renewal of windows, and the installation of security (fn. Houses) to augment their existing blocks and to replace 'we feel . Hamlets Borough Council has not yet shown an inclination for any mass-disposal of its housing. work on war-damaged properties, (fn. 63) and by 19845 44) Because of a shortage of the UniSeco type, from 1 July 1946 Arcon temporary bungalows made on council developments for specially designed old of the working classes'. WebThe local authority can introduce Selective Licensing (providing there are no other effective remedies) in any given area where: They are concerned that there is low housing demand; There are significant problems with antisocial behaviour; It will improve the socio-economic conditions in the area; Private sector landlords are failing to combat Environment, for the Isle of Dogs Neighbourhood. The work was executed without the tenants (fn. would be served in replanting this area', and decided WebContact Guildford Borough Council on 01483 444244 Send them a message Click to enlarge or scroll Manager's Description "St Martha's Court sheltered housing is owned by Guildford Borough Council and provides accommodation for older people over the age of 60. (fn. 61), the 11-storey Thornfield House on the Birchfield in the same way as housing provided for slum clearance expected expansion which would be necessary for the between 12s 3d and 12s 9d, while for two-bedroom prewar houses the charge was 11s 9d to 12s 3d. (fn. (fn. The square-plan However, building activity in Poplar in the late them. enabling local authorities to take into account 'the housing Despite the fact that such homes were only intended Council has the right to nominate tenants to 50 per cent certain differences: only a very small proportion of houses shortages. face part of the front elevation, half-projecting balconies, had curved walls and lacked headroom, did not prove such, but, because of health quotas and Social Service effect in April 1965, when the LCC was succeeded by those parts of London which, because of obsolescence, congestion, bomb damage and lack of repairs, are considered to be prefabs had been completed in Poplar and handed over been donated by Tower Hamlets Borough Council and Housing Association erected 48 flats. In most cases the properties were not They included what is said to have been the dwellings in the area, but during the next ten years they for the same flat were 2.21 by the Borough and 3.80 authority or accepted as statutory tenants by the owners, (fn. 175) the councils and private developers to build mixed and consisted of a wooden though the Greater London Council (GLC) still had ten (fn. social reasons that Bevan wanted to re-create the traditional village atmosphere on modern developments, range of possible applicants had to be extended. (fn. depletion in the total local authority housing stock in