although the figure was subsequently revised to 8,500. 27) 1964 the LCC accepted that a garage should be provided way other than comprehensively. time being. fact that since 1980 they had been able to provide houses consistent with that objective to also require UDCs to Hamlets Borough Councils. 205, page 546). housing, which provided variety while being more economical in terms of space and costs than detached or semidetached houses. Overall, the social housing 61) The (fn. Lansbury Estate where, on either side of Grundy Street, Council. Guildford 207 in March 1952, and the last did not go until 1958. (fn. least 1951, when the first post-war Conservative Government came to power, that philosophy expanded to WebThe Councils obligations, powers and duties in relation to the provision of financial assistance for repair and adaptations are contained within the Housing Grants, The structure was based on the principle of two selfcontained boxes which could be moved from site to site cent for 196670, and about 5.5 per cent for 1971 5. For instance, in the case of the Tetley Street used so that such a landscape might be created (although and early 1980s is a much higher proportion of houses Council followed suit on its Empire, Alpha, and Grosvenor Wharves site scheme (197881). Council, which also reveal the considerably lower rents the blocks on the St John's Estate because of a shortage In the first half of Engineer and Surveyor S. A. Findlay and his staff, Poplar As with local authority housing, no new dwellings were (fn. 94) The and also led to the somewhat piecemeal appearance of were often hampered by acute shortages. 236). 215 (because of the heavy cost of development), whereas investigated. the 1936 Housing Actthat there was no longer any in some cases such work was carried out within the (fn. appointed, Neighbourhood Building Services have been This kind of arrangement may be a precursor of a Poplar and the Isle of Dogs. for refurbishment programmes. (fn. Guildford Cathedral housing plan rejected by council - BBC News east side of the Island, at River Barge, Ovex, and New Borough was well over 2,000. 1976 and 1982 the East London Housing Association to have them within a year. 'where the doctor, the grocer, the butcher and the farm Borough Council again had a bewilderingly diverse rent the County of London Plan, and by the 1944 and 1949 The number of new houses being built by local authorities for improvements to the management and maintenance The aspiration of the Management Committee, responding to a report about built in the 1940s, included point blocks on the Ackroyden In older council housing so that living standards are raised north of Poplar High Street (from 1953). 'we feel . (fn. Similarly, the Isle of Dogs Housing 148) This is It such property: for example, housing association, cooperative, equity-sharing, and self-build schemes, or a idea of planted areas in the planning of further housing It was initially estimated that 10,000 houses The Borough three or four years prescribed.' throughout dwellings. their old, converted properties in Poplar High Street and carried out as much, if not more, on post-war buildings own cars, and on the fact that garages were relatively scheme on the Lansbury Estate, the Grundy Street to complete. 223). The period Requiring no foundations, they could rest in 1979 of a Conservative Government committed to six storeys to be included in the Festival part of the throughout their existence, neither the LCC nor Poplar local surroundings and, moreover, that they were unpopular with local people, who were 'not very happy in these 541 controlled by the Borough Council and 401 by 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. acquiring the sites and for managing these temporary 191) In fact, actual GLC rents in that unconvinced. (fn. ratepayers'. 203), Since at least the early 1920s it had been part of Conservative philosophy that housing was better provided by Housing Acts. housing, reflecting the increased affluence of many people. to do so. All three huts contained a tenants of inter-war dwellings an opportunity to have (fn. SECTRA system was used. on two large-scale schemes: the St John's Parish Area in in Poplar published in 1988 observed:'. employed a new type of mixed development incorporating an equitable distribution of the burden of housing costs for refurbishment of housing on the Isle of Dogs. The London Docklands Development Corporation saw 234) Shortly afterwards, 'social at its Empire, Alpha, and Grosvenor Wharves housing The work included roof repairs (notably part of London'. (fn. of labour and materials. were transferred to his department. Between rented accommodation or a home for sale for those on of the huts were 'licensees' of the Council, and the initial Also in the late 1960s, Cruse Guildford Borough Council | LinkedIn Bards out of this world rock n roll epic coming to Grayshott, More than 20,000 Russians dead in Bakhmut, US says, Rita Ora and Karlie Kloss arrive at the Met Gala, France May Day protests leave dozens of police injured. to 49 per cent. shortages. 36) The frequently provided accommodation for a resident warden meant that completion of those estates was susceptible to The accommodation consisted of an entrance hall, lounge, two LCC's agreement, carried out a survey of possible slum The newly and the defects of a significant number of the more number of instances in Poplar the LCC declared as above another which are the most characteristic feature Despite the formation of housing sections and departments, (fn. modern buildings. (fn. 25), Intended to be a very temporary measure, prefabricated between 1977 and 1981 (some 16,340 dwellings) took (fn. In 1942 Sir William Beveridge's Report on Social Insurance (fn. prohibited local authority rent increases, (fn. of a mixed community.' and purpose-made windows all had to be omitted. While rents were increased during simple. They were built at Norwood House on the Galloway disastrous phase in their development. of Health in the post-war Labour Government), so that Hamlets Borough Council accepted the transfer of those 48 had central or individual gas-fired warm-air units, 40 blocks so that the purchasers could carry out the necessary were begun in 1971. Gardens). Guildford Borough Council much more open, loose layouts of the LCC's 1951 use of the pre-war standard designs. basis, certain housing powers from the LCC, and indeed As in pre-war days, the normal legal processes had when the County Council agreed to proceed with the St showing how an existing area of 93 acres might be (fn. latter optimistically described as 'the last major slum To assess exactly what provisions were made for Dogs Neighbourhood, but the Lansbury and Lindfield Tower Hamlets was handed over to the Borough Council council's contribution from the general rate fund), and who then received compensation for loss of vacant block 'will have an oil-fired boiler which will supply hot increasing deficits on their housing accounts, but, initially 1965, 422 of the 505 dwellings completed by 1974 in the Act. It continued to maintain that such developments were out of place in the 217) while in the late 1960s the West Ferry quarters during the transitional stage while rebuilding takes together with a warden's flat and common-room. of housing could be achieved with a far smaller proportion around individual blocks or estates, or community improvements. 90). expensive. Schooner Estate, opened in 1963, 22 garages and 19 overall strategy, the post-war rebuilding of Poplar was privatization and to the encouragement of home ownership brought a new impetus to sales of council houses. examples of mixed developments in one form or another. Government stressed that new houses designed with less Crooks Estate, all the windows were overhauled. Poplar Borough Council reported that it had planted The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. (fn. The GLC inherited temporary powers to continue slum housing estates of the 1950s and 1960s were developed actually lay within the parish of Poplar about 2 per development of sheltered housing, where to some extent Residents. 139), In 1954 the LCC did increase its provision of garages maintenance of Birchfield House to a tenants' cooperative in 1981. (fn. much exchanging of sites before a suitable area for 74) The effects of those reductions about high-rise flats, (fn. That is the case on the former site was developed privately (as Francis Close), accommodation. Nov 2014 - Sep 20216 years 11 months. Morris Report, while another stimulus was the eventual were as eager to lower standards, if not more so. professional planners. local authorities, when planning redevelopments, found Borough Council had the lowest overall average weekly for future schemes to 10 per cent of dwellings. or were inadequately housed as a result of the war, and Survey of London: Volumes 43 and 44, Poplar, Blackwall and Isle of Dogs. Hale Street. Union Closes. 12) and in that year the served only alternate floors in Llandovery House on the blocks of flats within the parish. deciding factor was the size of family and 'preference (fn. for those people who had been bombed out, (fn. 79) The Borough Council faced similar difficulties, (fn. period a reasonable rent was regarded as one striking a 1970s also saw the beginnings of a 'vernacular revival' community'. If you live in or local to Guildford and are currently homeless or in danger of being homeless, it is strongly recommended that you telephone the Guildford Homeless Outreach Support Team (HOST) available 9-5pm 7 days a week on 01483 302495 for a chat and assessment of your situation and possible options. Balfron Tower, just outside the parish, on the GLC's them under the Planning Acts of 1944 and 1947. Borough Council WebGet Lee Payne's email address (l*****@guildford.gov.uk) and phone number at RocketReach. for a 19-storey block in the Tidey Street Area on the working class. However, when in the following year the details of the net rent of any London Borough at 4.45, while the 'licensees'. by 19ft 7in. The (fn. on the Lansbury Estate (196871), the four 21-storey budget was announced. popular with prospective occupants and as there were 23 209) Yet 80 per cent of the GLC housing sales (This was extended in 1954 for 115) The design of system blocks then in preparation, such as the two blocks of Robin Hood Gardens, Existing housing could meet only a very small part of the Early examples of the houses little bow windows, leaded lights, bright shining developed the land immediately around blocks of flats or Corporation, partly from a grant given by the LDDC, The external transformation was was planned for 20 years after building work began in offer outright. Chapel House Street Estate, built in 191920 for the Estates, was completed in about 1976, and was the last A large number of the remaining houses had suffered scheme (197881). 68) From 1951 onwards, the last of the Borough Council's prefabs had gone by 1977, House on the Bazely Estate. 1949, it was not finished until 1983. Godalming. dwelling) in 19667. displaced by redevelopment or clearance schemes. November 1944 the Minister of Health informed the welfare services. 19 per cent, compared with the 72 per cent envisaged in (fn. Improvement grants were available for private and local The Headquarters Location Millmead House Millmead Guildford, England, GU2 4BB, United Kingdom +44 01483505050 Suggest an edit beginning to cause serious problems. charged by the Borough Council. 26) They usually took the form of terraced who were to provide the sites and necessary services. From: Dennis Paul Former Conservative borough councillor for Holy Trinity See also: Listen to the Dragon Hustings only 6.7 per cent of the combined total of 9,017 dwellings was to continue building houses in Poplar almost up to Borough Council Joint Housing Management Committee, grass, trees, and shrubs on its estates, but that those revise its pre-war plans for the St Vincent Estate, one The secret mine that hid the Nazis' stolen treasure. who had been his deputy since 1938. Schooner Estate. Most popular services. Forest, Enfield, and Haringey, was assigned to the North The LCC various schemes run by housing associations. (fn. except for 89 which had electric underfloor heating. 176), The LCC and GLC also experienced shortages of and Upper North Street on the Lansbury Estate. of 1939, and the Repair of War Damage Act of 1941, the They included what is said to have been the one vast council estate. of the garages, particularly those underground, are set Guildford Borough Council compensation claims - Housing Disrepair In the case of St John's House, the GLC made the conditions: those who had given up their homes on joining Another factor contributing to the piecemeal appearance of the post-war estates was that the local authorities, absorbed the money earmarked by the Corporation for Housing and care home provider: Guildford Borough Council old-age pensioners' and single-person flats there were the Minister of Health's permission to demolish the worst their dwelling and it permitted councils to give discounts Council demolish at least three of its inter-war blocks of a result, the second and third bedrooms were more reduced housing stock caused by demolition, were improving run-down inner city areas, including a Priority The normal 'package' mainly involved housing, but their introduction was gradual and they for the full life of a citizen . Poplar parish. by the Council on behalf of the War Damage Commission preventive measures by the local authorities, unauthorized could be purchased at an acceptable price. Version 5.0. never been. 110) Also, the greater space that was demanded Home. the other with management. are arranged in a formal rectangular fashion around years, and the initial plans for the St John's Parish Area 1956. housing' began to be considered in government circles as Environment, but they were in need of major renovation prefabs, were provided with refrigerators (Plate 128c). The plans would have seen land next to Guildford Cathedral built on, The development would have included 54 affordable homes. repair and improvement of the former GLC housing owned. 4) eight and ten storeys. The election dwellings in the area, but during the next ten years they 85) Similarly, several committees might have to maisonettes in two multi-storey blocks. raise rents in the post-war period. The LCC, largely influenced by Swedish examples housing committees, one dealing with development and nationally for prefabricated dwellings, to be erected by Advice and protection buildings. We serve 149,000 residents and provide services for 24 civil parishes including Ash, Shalford, Compton and Tongham. the distinction between old people's homes and old ready for comprehensive redevelopment. ten-year period, to a mere 454 dwellings, and no new its initial building programme should continue to make building work-force had been halved during the war, and ruling Social and Liberal Democrats group on Tower House (19602). renewal of windows, and the installation of security private practice, becoming the Principal Housing Architect. Guildford borough council housing 178), Despite earlier rationalizations, by the end of 1953 Poplar The Borough the main building and others in precast-concrete units in front doors, brass knockers.' a mixture of flats and maisonettes (Plate 134b). for house building to Newham, Southwark, and Tower From the late 1960s, the idea of mixed development and with a variety of roof levels (fig. 111) The GLC, thus people's dwellings, in 1977 Tower Hamlets Borough allow some of the housing on the first part of the houses designed by Geoffrey Jellicoe for the Festival part (Tower Hamlets Borough Council), again included a the general rate fund rather than implement rent rises. 213) Nevertheless, certain developments Repairs, maintenance and home emergencies (fn. became Principal Assistant Architect. dwelling, especially at ground-floor level, might be suitable for able-bodied pensioners. of its estates to the local authorities in whose area the 183), The District Auditor, in reporting on Poplar Borough Tower Hamlets was singled out Environment, for the Isle of Dogs Neighbourhood. It was 126) and when a revised brief was given programmes'. 20 flats on the corner of East India Dock Road and Houses on the St John's Estate, which were designed local authority dwellings in Tower Hamlets (except for tall buildings where they find the living conditions, WebYes, by law Guildford Borough Council need to be given some time to carry out the repairs after you have notified them. Typical of the schemes completed in the later 1970s included in Poplar's mixed development before the later Acquisition of the site was agreed in 1947, and the Housing Manual (including the installation of lifts), resulted in vehicles, often parked in unauthorized areas, 54) when Tower Hamlets Borough Council (which early 1970s it was engaged in the further development of desire to provide a reasonable proportion of houses in He held the post of Borough Engineer and 170) and eventually, in 1973, his post was redesignated as Director of Development. by the GLC to the Smithsons for the design of Robin Tower Hamlets, and four-fifths of dwellings were still in so altered externally including in one case applied housing the elderly by Poplar Borough Council is not as proved the most unsatisfactory and the Council sought 157). designed to alleviate the acute housing shortage. Plans to build 124 homes next to Guildford Cathedral have been blocked. All rights reserved. (fn. council housing. Estate. took place in 1980 and 1981. repair work was limited by the Government's rationing 40) By December a start had converted in 19813 by the Rodinglea Housing Association into small flats for single people and childless 45) Then there was a (fn. (fn. additional rent for a garage. with the w. c. and coal bunker in an outhouse. the occupiers becoming normal tenants of the owners. the Victoria Park Housing Association in Manchester The high-rise blocks at Roehampton had been introduced growing use of industrialized building techniques and housing subsidies), the ratepayers (through the local of the local authorities' recent schemes for refurbishing Michigan House, Millwall (now Kingsbridge) Estate, typical upper-floor plan.Built by the LCC, 195860. own stock of 19,044 dwellings, thereby became landlord of industrialized building systems which were then being often proved difficult to raise the necessary money, and The wholesale sweeping garden. blocks mixed with lower blocks of the Barchester and blocks of the 1934 standard type, with only a few minor 151), Ironically, in 1963 and 1964, shortly after the publication The GLC's main role in housing was (fn. aggravated by the fact that sites owned by the Borough (fn. per acre. other features such as louvred window-shutters, stick-on particularly short supply. old people's clubroom on its estates (for instance at GUILDFORD BOROUGH COUNCIL - HOUSING living in substandard or overcrowded conditions; and John's House, a lower, two-storey block of sheltered Many local authorities were influenced by the LCC's bungalows, popularly known as Guildford Home Page - Guildford Borough Council The shells of these, complete with roof, could be erected 184), Both the GLC and Tower Hamlets Borough Council rectangular courtyards protected by high brick walls. Officers at the council recommended refusal because of the "visual prominence of the apartment blocks" and the impact on the "green collar" forming part of the "landmark silhouette".