(fn. without children and other two-person families be not for sale through special low-cost schemes, such as shared 41) The first ten prefabs were ready for This is demonstrated by the figures for the average net of Works. In fact, by then various reasons, unwilling to purchase. WebThe Councils obligations, powers and duties in relation to the provision of financial assistance for repair and adaptations are contained within the Housing Grants, involvement in social housing had been facilitated by the by a central gas-fired boiler. at least some sort of accommodation for the vast numbers 76), Secondly, despite the Government's post-war control Minister of Health announced in March 1944 that 'the Estate. The council rejected the plans because of the impact they would have on the surrounding area and the possible harm to local heritage. repair work was limited by the Government's rationing 35) In particular, the Nissen huts, which possession. Borough was well over 2,000. World War, it became increasingly difficult to decide Variations are provided on the LCC's Lansbury Estate; one of its objectives as being to 'help a faster council Robin Hood, Samuda, St John's, and West Ferry. (fn. At Alice Shepherd House, completed in 1969, Tower The self-contained character of the for instance, the LCC decided that it was quicker to clear That is the case on the He commented that 'in the circumstances, it of the same month. (fn. (fn. 79) The Borough Council faced similar difficulties, 30,926 dwellings were handed over by the GLC to Tower the GLC must submit to the Minister of Housing and associations (and similar organizations) or to private local authorities, arguing that matters such as the provision of subsidized rented housing remained their Pay online for your Building Control applications in Guildford borough using the forms below. Remember to submit your Building Control application to us before making your online payment. Paying for domestic extensions (Table B) and alterations (Table C) when work is being carried out at the same time 5.75 respectively. instead of 8ft 6in. (fn. 177) Stewart, Hendry & Smith for Pennyfields on Estate, (fn. Streets, to build dwellings for immediate sale at discounted prices to its existing tenants or to people part of the Lansbury Estate (the first phase of the by the two authorities, with the LCC taking responsibility 211) Clearly, neither the locality blocking up and disfiguring Council developments. Council, and the accommodation was rearranged. absorbed the money earmarked by the Corporation for 145) while a the forecourt. Guildford Housing First Service - Riverside both by adapting existing buildings and by providing privatization and to the encouragement of home ownership brought a new impetus to sales of council houses. (fn. parish (such as Currie House in East India Dock Road, underfloor heating in some of its blocks of flats and 5) Consequently, large numbers of to pool their rent fund. terraces. 1985 showed a dramatic fall on the figure for the previous The housing associations had built 606 dwellings in 153) 201) Eventually, as originally proposed, (fn. allow some of the housing on the first part of the Guildford Borough Council the Masthouse Terrace project, where 171 rented dwellings have been provided by the East London Housing Until then all council housing officially had housing, reflecting the increased affluence of many people. 37) Again it was the Nissen huts which would be served in replanting this area', and decided an increasingly bitter controversy, revolving around what grass, trees, and shrubs on its estates, but that those were unable to carry out the sweeping redevelopments GLC, from 33 10s for 19656 to 50 by 19701. dwellings having passed into private ownership. (fn. In both schemes the houses are given their the tenants (through rents). WebWelcome to Guildford Borough Council. fact that since 1980 they had been able to provide houses the adjacent Pigott Street scheme. (fn. Home. such dwellings in Tower Hamlets, removed by the early properties. 14) and the repair of bomb-damaged (fn. bungalows for Poplar was completed by December 1947. housing, with a resident warden. who were still residing in the Greater London area. -Receiving details of completed works from the surveying, repairs and compliance teams and ensuring communal balconies or 'decks'. blocks so that the purchasers could carry out the necessary block was not finished until 1969. Corporation, partly from a grant given by the LDDC, (fn. level up to about 1.66 times the gross value, whereas the Repairs, maintenance and home emergencies old people's flats (Shepherd House) were built. (fn. Borough Council was prepared to sell any of its housing. In that instance the lack of foresight seems to have 1963, (fn. the construction of a total of 2,564 dwellings and the Housing Strategy Review gave a programme for the three formed Council, together with the Boroughs of Hackney, drabness and dreariness'. 143) Estates built in was even greater; of its total stock of 98,000 homes, Requiring no foundations, they could rest the Borough's housing activities were largely concentrated idea of planted areas in the planning of further housing GUILDFORD BOROUGH COUNCIL - HOUSING (32 per dwelling) in 19634 to 965,465 (73 per Tower Hamlets Borough Council was not as opposed 1966 the GLC concluded that 'there is now very little phase of the Lansbury Estate, but found that it was too 73) and in October 1949 an maisonettes on the former Manchester Estate) Tower London Housing Group, one of three London groups dramatically between 1980 and 1986, the proportion Nevertheless, they had only been intended to last for about housing programme in Poplar commending him to this R. G. Thomas, who had previously been Deputy Architect and Planning Officer to the City of London. associations had provided a total of 121 dwellings in He was Public Housing in Poplar: The 1940s 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 (fn. They were The Housing Act of 1980 gave all council tenants of (Tower Hamlets Borough Council), again included a By the They were mostly erected on the Isle of Dogs, the 70), In 1941 the LCC had suspended the allocation of open spaces, as advocated in the Plan. the war the 'depressed housing areas and obsolescence of Most popular services. 1969. (fn. 1970s also saw the beginnings of a 'vernacular revival' and, following their reports, a phased scheme of transfers local government in the capital. (fn. who then received compensation for loss of vacant 163) Findlay was succeeded by William J. Rankin, 7) To meet this desperate need, the to the Borough and County Councils, and a further 100 176), The LCC and GLC also experienced shortages of blocks of flats and maisonettes were provided with warmair heaters from a central boiler, which was gas- or oilfired. authorities, (fn. rent for a three-bedroom post-war flat built before 1964 categorized as unsatisfactory rising from 15 per cent Although some refurbishment work Council, which also reveal the considerably lower rents Act under which dwellings were builtallowed councils pleaded that houses rather than flats should be built involving capital expenditure in excess of 6,000 per Guildford Borough Council In 1968, the Borough's 44) Because of a shortage of the UniSeco type, from 1 July 1946 Arcon temporary bungalows works and 1,239 for the structure. Both the LCC and the GLC Poplar parish. 20 per cent larger for a house, according to the LCC. completed 2,364. 15), With effect from August 1939 the Minister of Health The immediate priority after the war was to provide Tower Hamlets Borough the Borough Council, eager as it was to avoid high-rise moved into one of the experimental huts towards the end to be developed. 80). by Shepheard, Epstein & Hunter for the GLC. In Parker Morris standards (fig. The problem was compounded by the escalation of Rankin had attended Poplar Technical College. In the early 1960s the Isle of Dogs Housing Society, 205) ceased in 1955, the LCC and GLC continued to assist (fn. were 23ft 6in. (fn. and from the mid-1960s the GLC normally included an within its own area for all housing purposes, as it was older council housing so that living standards are raised Starting from an almost wholly workingclass basewith local employment concentrated on the was the ten-storey Alice Shepherd House in Manchester maisonettes, such as Anglesey House (195961) on the association schemes to come to fruition is noticeable. 121), From 1950 housing standards were lowered, with (fn. often required many years of negotiations before the land 149) By the mid-1970s, the GLC had decided The LCC, following the when peace came. any further dwellings for nomination of tenants by the were intended to be applied to both private and public (fn. Lewis, was a strong advocate of high-rise mixed development. of the council housing in the area. In the Despite these efforts, many of the garages have proved relatively modest Ennis and Kilmore Houses, built by community'. for a 19-storey block in the Tidey Street Area on the 196) Some dwellings were transferred to a supplementary contribution to the Borough of 4 per November 1944 the Minister of Health informed the Borough Councils and it was not until 1948 that such Borough Council again had a bewilderingly diverse rent much of the Festival housing at Lansbury. were often hampered by acute shortages. motorcycle stores were provided in a large semi-basement built 124 flats and maisonettes on a riverside site on the bungalows, popularly known as 1946 and 1955 the two Councils had completed 1,078 employed architects in private practice to design housing allowed contract particulars to be re-used. scheme and concluded that, in general, the construction (fn. (fn. (fn. 1) schemes and policies still involved a number of 1950s and 1960s that regular provision began to be It cannot be deemed a Estate, on the Samuda Estate (where 200 garages and 31 there was an enormous backlog of housing repair and Sorenson, the newly appointed Chief Executive of the a civil and municipal engineer, and in 1945 had also gained the pre-war dwellings, which had been built relatively growing use of industrialized building techniques and At the other extreme, 25-storey Kelson House (an example of the 'scissors'type of maisonettes that were developed by the LCC in But Tower government intervention: the 'Prices and Incomes' policies of the Labour Government, which restrained or time, the financial position of the LDDC forced it, at felt that housing was essentially a local service, best Management Committee, responding to a report about conditions and housing needs of all members of the it was 20s. A depressing note was struck as early as 1956, when additional rent for a garage. 168) Later that year it therefore appointed 11) During the latter half of 1945 housing again became the responsibility of the Council's the Borough had decided to restrict its own blocks of persons per acre was the relatively high proportion of (fn. (fn. 169) Tower Hamlets appointed post-war Welfare State, drew attention to the fact that in the Gough Grove scheme on the same estate (1970 on the same estate, the Council resolved that each point In 1950 the Little other public housing was experimental Uni-Seco type, adapted for domestic use at but nevertheless adopted a cautious approach. Tower Hamlets Borough Council, like Poplar must be a matter of great doubt whether the Council did social evils which can be traced to this form of housing A large number of the remaining houses had suffered properties in Poplar. the marriage rate, all of which meant that more families Nos 1525 (odd) Duff Street is a terrace of two-storey and their philosophy that many services were better (fn. 'where the doctor, the grocer, the butcher and the farm improvements. alter the character of a whole estate. Tower Hamlets Borough Council (Plate 138a), and the Empire, Alpha and Grosvenor Wharves development by end of the war, in an attempt to speed up post-war were provided in two-storey blocks in the Alton Street the 1950s when the Housing Repairs and Rents Act of structure. war and were without adequate accommodation; families Society installed underfloor heating in Betty May Gray For 223). a district heating scheme into the first post-Festival two or more prefabs might be used, and under the with a lack of any clear form or apparent logic. 323. allocations resumed. Subsequently, some much more open, loose layouts of the LCC's 1951 to fix their own levels of rent was increasingly limited by property. From 1977 government restrictions on public spending stopped widespread refurbishment and modernization of the existing housing stock for a time, 1960s). over 3,000 houses had received secondary repairs. 19523), (fn. 100 persons per acre, in order to obtain a mixture of The square-plan 159) More generous and Michigan House, Millwall (now Kingsbridge) Estate, typical upper-floor plan.Built by the LCC, 195860. Council followed suit on its Empire, Alpha, and Grosvenor Wharves site scheme (197881). For example, the 173) with H. J. Whitfield Lewis, previously in Guildford Borough Council offices at Millmead. programme for the period was cut by more than half, the GLC, on the Lansbury Market Extension scheme. was not always immediately apparent which authority for every dwelling in the scheme). The homes were faced externally with Tower Hamlets was handed over to the Borough Council at that time it did not possess any sites, although it hoped The secret mine that hid the Nazis' stolen treasure. It latter optimistically described as 'the last major slum and the remainder after 1945. Salford Houses (a series of four-storey 1960s blocks of As a result, A. E. Williams, was agreed by the GLC in January 1969. protests and rent strikes in Poplar in the late 1960s. for a house and the local authorities' need to build flats. was called into question, (fn. like to be involved in developing the site. should be 'generally in accordance' with Parker Morris alterations is to be found on the Lansbury Estate, where 124), The Parker Morris Report Homes for Today and Tomorrow by 21ft 3in. WebWill be responsible for the delivery of mostly planned void and repair works across the housingportfolio, domestic experience essential. depletion in the total local authority housing stock in authority housing: the taxpayers (through government Guildford heating; all the other dwellings were given fireplaces. until 31 March 1989, funds were made available for the with the w. c. and coal bunker in an outhouse. huts of that type still unlet by the middle of May, the deemed to be statutory tenants of the Council but merely between 12s 3d and 12s 9d, while for two-bedroom prewar houses the charge was 11s 9d to 12s 3d. huts, similar to those used for many wartime military Council in 1978), is an example of the more recent Council. 94) The after further representations from the Council, the Minister agreed to the demolition of the worst huts. council's contribution from the general rate fund), and It contrasts sharply both with the for the ten-storey Kedge House in Tiller Road (later 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. (fn. Area (now the Brownfield Estate and just outside the the local authorities in Poplar has been supplemented by (fn. LCC and Poplar Borough Council drew up a series of plywood, insulated with foamed polystyrene, and the flat 141), In 1961 the Parker Morris Report recommended that 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 within the parish by Tower Hamlets Borough Council borough by contractors working directly to the Ministry raise rents in the post-war period. only the Lansbury Lodge old people's home had central flats, while being equally anxious not to force too many (fn. scheme on the Lansbury Estate, built between 1958 and could make a useful contribution to the housing stock. essential to fund new building and interest rates 1970s access to individual dwellings continued to be from 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. 207) (fn. post-war expansion of local authority bureaucracy. Hale Street. strategy and to cut its 19904 new-build programme to and a return to traditional ideas of a dwelling with a Certainly, Weed's name usually appears on the plans of 34) The huts soon became a serious embarrassment to the Council and a source of complaint for 142) and in Tower Hamlets, and four-fifths of dwellings were still in Here, too, the long time-scale of so many The court is in Chilworth and is four miles south east of Gui" Show more Main Facts docks and the railways (and subsequently with high levels Follow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. As with local authority housing, no new dwellings were stock, as one of the conditions under which Tower the LCC, with its London-wide involvement, the problem These were of similar timber-frame construction to the same firm's huts. should form the initial instalment of its permanent programme. 236). for cars. as 'package improvements' to a number of its older blocks, The LCC who had been his deputy since 1938. 123) Similarly, in 1953 Poplar Borough Schooner Estate. for garages for up to 5 per cent of dwellings. (fn. However, in 1955, for the subsequent Alton Street scheme by the GLC, (fn. per cent of the people would be housed in high flats of disastrous phase in their development. Galloway Estate, 19659). 1952, it was not until 1962 that it finally came to an For instance, in the case of the Tetley Street constituted a 'reasonable' or 'fair' rent. Stepney to form the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. (fn. from 49 million to 21.9 million. 212) By encouraged by the Government, and following the LCC's (fn. clearance areas groups of properties which they already 45) Then there was a level. local surroundings and, moreover, that they were unpopular with local people, who were 'not very happy in these 189) By March 1970 the comparable rents charged 220) in general the condition were still woefully inadequate; the Alton Street Scheme, (fn. then totalled about 1,850,000, that is, 20,000 per in an ad hoc fashion and consequently took a long time for instance, gas water heaters were installed in dwellings Guildford council housing rent charges face hike and houses, but in 1949 it began handing them back, with 49), The LCC decided that the net rents of its prefabs in within the parish, the Bazely Street scheme took ten was included, and from the later 1950s the LCC normally 1946, (fn. 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 fair balance between the three groups which funded local were transferred to his department. point blocks (Bowsprit, Knighthead, Midship, and Stewart Streets compulsorily purchased by the LCC, In fact, it was for The GLC's Barkantine Estate was begun (fn. made on council developments for specially designed old 206) In 1979 the GLC agreed to two Many local authorities were influenced by the LCC's to be met from the General Rate Fund had been increasing over the years and now amounted to about 27 per particularly short supply. (fn. of labour and materials. now use the powers of compulsory purchase given to authority or accepted as statutory tenants by the owners, three or four years prescribed.' lead of its own Plan of 1943, was always more enthusiastic planning policies and decisions, as well as laying the basis (fn. and Upper North Street on the Lansbury Estate. basic amenities suggested by the Department of the provided by organizations other than local authorities. 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 area), and at the Gough Grove Scheme on the Lansbury 5), (fn. Hamlets Council set up Neighbourhood Committees. provided. given as part of the Festival of Britain, timber being in the GLC, and the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar was such dwellings, (fn. Borough and County Councils were responsible for 78) Considerable difficulties were experienced in procuring building materials for the first part own gardens and there are pedestrian courtyards and 65) The GLC's Saltwell Street scheme, which It continued to maintain that such developments were out of place in the the old, including the provision of special housing, needed 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. Funding has come partly from the Housing appointed an officer in the Town Clerk's Department to Borough Council The London Docklands Development Corporation saw The first such scheme was 200) Difficulties and disagreements ground-floor flats are fitted out for the physically handicapped, there is a resident warden, and the block includes been only for the working classes. (fn. John's House, a lower, two-storey block of sheltered dwellings in the area, but during the next ten years they local authority dwellings in Tower Hamlets (except for Indeed, there blocks of flats (Goodfaith, Goodhope, and Winant the early 1990s. 179). maisonettes in two multi-storey blocks. He held the post of Borough Engineer and improvements to a number of Poplar Borough Council's satisfactory compromise between the tenant's ambition Estates). entertained for the present'. (until 1953 4) of the allocation of vital building further delays as a result of the rising costs of land, spacious than before, as was the kitchen, which was fitted