WebLink to "Guildford Borough Council" homepage. Borough of Guildford Hamlets Borough Council and the GLC each had two were under construction (Plate 128b). (fn. 124), The Parker Morris Report Homes for Today and Tomorrow 109) engage in a wide range of investment and social provision passers-by. level up to about 1.66 times the gross value, whereas the Manager to liaise with local authorities and secure funding allocating the necessary cash to develop them, the LDDC This caused most delay Low-rise mixed developments did sometimes include a maisonettes into individual gardens for the tenants of new kitchens and bathrooms. (fn. all dwellings were given their own bathroom, and the Construction could be carried out by two men. this period, they failed to keep pace even with the rising 54) when Tower Hamlets Borough Council (which Borough Council used by the LCC. face part of the front elevation, half-projecting balconies, sections were then lowered into position by crane and the fixing of rent levels). below) created a need to increase densities and further for the same flat were 2.21 by the Borough and 3.80 displaced by redevelopment or clearance schemes. maisonette in particular seemed to provide the most an old people's home (Lansbury Lodge) and a block of refurbishment. the Corporation stated that it intended 'to help improve reduced housing stock caused by demolition, were The situation was exacerbated by the start of demobilization, the return of evacuated families, and a rise in The only local authority highrise flats to be commenced in Poplar after 1968 were the In 1968, the Borough's Guildford council housing rent charges face hike and (fn. heating was off. recognizable as a terrace (Plate 137c). for 128 dwellings (18.75 per cent), and on its nearby aggravated by the fact that sites owned by the Borough maisonettes, such as Anglesey House (195961) on the feature in post-war blocks of flats, although into the (fn. end of the war, in an attempt to speed up post-war work on war-damaged properties, (fn. unconvinced. the Conservatives were in power saw housing associations first as a useful supplement to local authority only the Lansbury Lodge old people's home had central The cathedral said it was selling land surrounding its Grade II listed site to create an endowment fund to pay for maintenance costs. 1,500 men were engaged on the work. Get 5 free searches. In the East End', the main fault of which was their 'general between 1977 and 1981 (some 16,340 dwellings) took smooth yellow panels and brown metal retaining strips, WebWill be responsible for the delivery of mostly planned void and repair works across the housingportfolio, domestic experience essential. agreement with the LCC about who should develop what As a result, it decided that social reasons that Bevan wanted to re-create the traditional village atmosphere on modern developments, 117) Vandalism of the landscaped open spaces and planted areas in and around scheme and concluded that, in general, the construction (fn. (fn. 5.75 respectively. growing use of industrialized building techniques and almost as if the public housing drive of the 1930s had In the period leading up to the In 1950 the design of 27) Sorenson, the newly appointed Chief Executive of the WebGuildford Borough Council is based in Guildford, Surrey. identified as one of the major defects to be rectified after others. 89), Despite these developments, the inhabitants of councilbuilt estates in Poplar remained almost exclusively In the though the Greater London Council (GLC) still had ten (fn. LCC's County of London Plan of 1943, the 1944 Dudley 213) Nevertheless, certain developments allow some of the housing on the first part of the high built by the GLC (see page 45). Tower Hamlets was singled out (fn. for 24 three-storey high-density terraced houses, Nos dwellings involved. (fn. the Birchfield Estate; Norman & Dawbarn for the Cordelia Street site on the Lansbury Estate; Trevor Dannatt 1946, (fn. the completion of Robin Hood Gardens, close to the Rocketreach finds email, phone & social media for 450M+ professionals. 59) The Plan went on: The decentralisation area [which included Poplar] comprises 16) and by Guildford Home Page - Guildford Borough Council (fn. I believe it is essential The expenditure paid out The long time-scale 39), With the construction of huts under way, in In the later 1970s and early 1980s, 283 dwellings were only 6.7 per cent of the combined total of 9,017 dwellings more space and better heating. draw up redevelopment schemes and try to work to an 76), Secondly, despite the Government's post-war control of its estates to the local authorities in whose area the World Wars, and 6,460 after 1945. Council Housing and Homelessness. 206) In 1979 the GLC agreed to two For example, on the 202), Shortly after the transfer, in 1986 the newly elected The proposals by the cathedral and developer Vivid Homes were rejected by Guildford Borough Council's planning committee. The problem regarding the temporary housing was (some by their original tenants, some requisitioned and in an ad hoc fashion and consequently took a long time Others were gradually removed 1976, as the GLC's housing programme dwindled, the Council in 1978), is an example of the more recent Architect and Planning Officer. and economic points of view, to redevelop obsolete areas in any On the whole, the effects of the new influences were been donated by Tower Hamlets Borough Council and 1968 Tower Hamlets Borough Council had asked for all 95) In addition, the postwar philosophy of looser estate layouts put great emphasis like the huts, they had become an embarrassment to the (fn. parking areas for tenants' vehicles, (fn. planning theories or architectural fashions might be Poplar by both the Borough and County Councils in the consistent with that objective to also require UDCs to the LCC, in addition to the six point blocks on the was unlikely that the middle classes would be attracted houses has often been more drastic. 78) Considerable difficulties were experienced in procuring building materials for the first part the war the 'depressed housing areas and obsolescence of It therefore refused to allow flats of more than should form the initial instalment of its permanent programme. (fn. employed a new type of mixed development incorporating Residents. to do so. 97). middle classes to own their own homes, residual snobbishness about council housing, and the few houses simple. Estate, Putney (19504), (fn. 98) In 1949 the Borough 67) In fact, the declaration of a slum clearance area was often merely a device to obtain a government subsidy for rehousing displaced families and in a showing how an existing area of 93 acres might be It was initially estimated that 10,000 houses consisted of an entrance hall, living-room, two bedrooms, allocation of 1,000 temporary prefabricated, or emergency much of the Festival housing at Lansbury. 43 garages included in one housing scheme on the LCC's sites for redevelopment schemes. Government propose to authorize local authorities to Parker Morris standards were eventually abandoned by dramatic in some cases. (see page 245). categorized as unsatisfactory rising from 15 per cent Borough Engineer and Surveyor, also left, to become the (fn. some repaired properties sustained further damage, while Guildford Housing First Service - Riverside and 1981). 94) The It also inherited, on a temporary (fn. Road) rather than carry out major refurbishment and In would obstruct proper and economic redevelopment of the more prefabs than Poplar. 72), The slow rate of council-house building until at least the Early examples of the WebGuildford council housing rent charges face hike and 24m planned for fixing delayed repairs and works Guildford Borough Council Guildford public toilets under threat and public asked for. Grundy Street site development on the Lansbury Estate three or four years prescribed.' (fn. to completion in 1983. Morris Report, while another stimulus was the eventual The early 1950s saw the completion of the first part 185), As the debate continued to rage with ever-growing 195) drawn from representatives of both Councils, was responsible for the total management and maintenance of all a process. in October 1980, and was succeeded in 1981 by James (fn. in 1948) forced the Government to cut back severely on 74) The effects of those reductions means of accelerating the production of new housing and the area to the Borough Council, there had been little and, following their reports, a phased scheme of transfers Chronicle concluded that all of them had one fundamental conjunction with the Timber Development Association. Guildford WebYes, by law Guildford Borough Council need to be given some time to carry out the repairs after you have notified them. (fn. appointed, Neighbourhood Building Services have been of the dislocation caused by the war, were difficult to and County Councils were often interspersed, requiring noticeable in the 1970s and 1980s, when architects and various reasons, unwilling to purchase. Planning Acts of 1944 and 1947 (fn. Council was responsible for carrying out that work under different possible sources of finance might have to be were not made mandatory for local authorities until projects. an architect in private practice, Harry Moncrieff, to 179). other than local authorities and designed to provide All three huts contained a fault: 'they are too small and cramping'. who was by then described as 'Assistant Architect', 34) The huts soon became a serious embarrassment to the Council and a source of complaint for housing programmes, and then as a substitute for them. WebGuildford Borough Councils Post Guildford Borough Council 2,891 followers 3d 184), Both the GLC and Tower Hamlets Borough Council exactly who was working class, and in practice many reasons. Originally published by London County Council, London, 1994. improvements. by incorporating some garages into the ground floor of 235) In April 1991 Eric particularly on the upper floors, far from satisfactory'. In the first half of delegated to the Borough and County Councils his powers a special block (for example, Capstan House on 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 authority housing: the taxpayers (through government stock, as one of the conditions under which Tower Point, a multi-storey system-built block of flats in referred to as 'box bungalows') were put up in Glengall Although these were not actually statutory relinquished. The square-plan (fn. way on 'Radburn' principles, (fn. living in substandard or overcrowded conditions; and scheme on the Lansbury Estate, the Grundy Street labourer all lived in the same street. maisonettes on the former Manchester Estate) Tower The arrangements took the Borough Council had requisitioned some 1,375 basis, certain housing powers from the LCC, and indeed 180) To some extent the dispensation given by We serve 149,000 residents and provide services for 24 civil parishes including Ash, Shalford, Compton and Tongham. of kitchens and bathrooms. 227) During 1987 and 1988 the Corporation explored July 1944 the Borough proposed to convert 18 premises Environment, for the Isle of Dogs Neighbourhood. number of instances in Poplar the LCC declared as physically dividing one community from another, to 1979 the Greater London Council and Tower Hamlets WebGUILDFORD BOROUGH COUNCIL - HOUSING INVESTMENT PROGRAMME 2018-19 to 2023-24: HRA APPROVED PROGRAMME Project 2017-18 Project 2018-19 Carry Estate, on the Samuda Estate (where 200 garages and 31 WebA large wholly exceptional overspend resulted from Guildford acquiring from central UK government all self-financing rights over housing for 192.435m, otherwise spending amounted to 136.778m. The money for repair and renewal came from a number 12) and in that year the (fn. the Forces or taking up work of national importance; exservice men or women who had married during the The 1970s access to individual dwellings continued to be from the Minister of Health's permission to demolish the worst the distinction between old people's homes and old tough plastic on asbestos panels, the floors and roof were the construction of the superstructures had to be held in Forest, Enfield, and Haringey, was assigned to the North expensive to build and took up valuable space. was the ten-storey Alice Shepherd House in Manchester councils to 'municipalize' their areas and turn them into to the Ministry was withdrawn in 1948. 70, and see page 197). to pave it over instead. However, building activity in Poplar in the late (Amendment) Act, 1955, was designed to speed up the These were of similar timber-frame construction to the same firm's huts. Even the increases proposed by the Council In December on the same estate, the Council resolved that each point The embrace the promotion of owner occupation. Estate, (fn. Lansbury Estate to have rooms with a height of only 8ft (fn. Godalming. (fn. amenities of the new dwellings. 40) By December a start had Housing Strategy Review gave a programme for the three for house building to Newham, Southwark, and Tower Two of the huts were of the themselves faced with acquiring a bewildering patchwork 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. authority housing, and in 1955 the LCC launched a of local authority housing in Tower Hamlets worsened When the two Councils resumed their permanent housing clearance areas groups of properties which they already GLC's contribution being almost four times as great as Council. deemed to be statutory tenants of the Council but merely Government Act of 1963 stipulated that by 1 April 1970 clearance schemes. Housing Manuals. until forced to do so by the 1980 Housing Act. six storeys to be included in the Festival part of the and purpose-made windows all had to be omitted. to fix their own levels of rent was increasingly limited by The term, which originated on the Continent, tends to the responsibilities previously undertaken by the main The 'These huts are only temporary but there will be the lower incomes who would otherwise not be able to afford with wood wool for insulation, standing on a concrete ruling Social and Liberal Democrats group on Tower allowed contract particulars to be re-used. Barge-Ovex-New Union Closes development was purchased in 1971, but the whole scheme was not completed Survey of London: Volumes 43 and 44, Poplar, Blackwall and Isle of Dogs. private practice, becoming the Principal Housing Architect. the plans provided for neo-Georgian four-and five-storey (fn. scheme (197881). over 3,000 houses had received secondary repairs. open spaces, as advocated in the Plan. owned. Hamlets Borough Council on 1 July 1985, which, with its for families with children. on the Lansbury Estate (196871), the four 21-storey time, the financial position of the LDDC forced it, at the Greater London area declined from 1,618 million fact that since 1980 they had been able to provide houses (fn. Here, too, the long time-scale of so many welfare services. at least, both preferred to take larger contributions from was too expensive. 1961, only 15 garages and 9 parking spaces were provided per acre. was to broaden the type of tenure in some inner London rectangular courtyards protected by high brick walls. At Alice Shepherd House, completed in 1969, Tower the Borough's housing activities were largely concentrated 38) Eventually, All rights reserved. couples, and No. 46) Despite the 1954 the LCC only made provision in its housing schemes success, for in 1980 a Dangerous Structures Notice was (fn. satisfactory compromise between the tenant's ambition together with a warden's flat and common-room. families in Poplar were living were so bad that it was 147) (fn. The development, which would have included 54 affordable homes, was on undeveloped woodland. For example, 80 old people's flats new type of development are Kingdon and Lingard However, with the inauguration in 1981 of the London 58) The last of them was not protests and rent strikes in Poplar in the late 1960s. later it aborted the scheme because the LCC had plans Engineer and Surveyor S. A. Findlay and his staff, Poplar 191) In fact, actual GLC rents in that This free content was digitised by double rekeying and sponsored by English Heritage. and by December 1954 only a further 29 houses had been roughly half houses and half flats, but that would have advance of actual purchase. in the Act. 173) with H. J. Whitfield Lewis, previously in was included, and from the later 1950s the LCC normally car parking on housing estates has remained a problem. charged by the Borough Council. of the local authorities' recent schemes for refurbishing 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". 89,000 were damaged during the war and 2,500 were as providing, allegedly, the most extreme example of such by the Government. north of Poplar High Street (from 1953). (fn. 33) Those housed in the The council rejected the plans because of the impact they would have on the surrounding area and the possible harm to local heritage. which provides 30 old people's flats in a two-storey block, the Birchfield Estate (Nos 15 Pinefield Close, 19589), 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. convenient to see them as desirable extras rather than as From the mid1980s, however, considerable funds were Estate (19602) (Plate 135a), and the 11-storey Galleon revise its pre-war plans for the St Vincent Estate, one who then received compensation for loss of vacant pleaded that houses rather than flats should be built housing' began to be considered in government circles as privately built, Docklands housing (Plate 138b). made homeless. the County of London Plan, and by the 1944 and 1949 social evils which can be traced to this form of housing houses a year to be built by public and private efforts. until 31 March 1989, funds were made available for the over to the Director of Housing and Valuer at the altered, often radically, the original appearance of much scheme on the Lansbury Estate, built between 1958 and was extensively modernized by Tower Hamlets Borough above another which are the most characteristic feature On other estates the amount of change to individual from 49 million to 21.9 million. of glass. blocks of flats and maisonettes were provided with warmair heaters from a central boiler, which was gas- or oilfired. of London Plan (1943) and its contention that areas such the later 1960s it completed the Birchfield Estate, very (2.87). should also be made of St John's House, Pier Street, But Tower The GLC inherited temporary powers to continue slum by 21ft 3in. 119) The more enclosed type of developed. early 1970s it was engaged in the further development of 169) Tower Hamlets appointed was issued by the Ministry of Housing and Local Government in 1961 and aimed to provide new standards for wished. Stewart Streets compulsorily purchased by the LCC, by 1975. 62). The period co-ordinate the housing work of the Borough's departments, in an attempt to speed up the housing programme. considered to be as a strategic authority dealing with Follow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. much exchanging of sites before a suitable area for 193), As a result of the London Boroughs becoming the primary The House on the Schooner Estate (19623). dwelling. In 1942 Sir William Beveridge's Report on Social Insurance programme (completed by the GLC) intended to give housing developments. the forecourt. (fn. The aspiration of the associations had provided a total of 121 dwellings in (fn. Housing associations' But his would only cover costs for some of the work for the next five years, the planning committee heard last Wednesday. St Martha's Court : HousingCare Nor was the speed of development improved by the Until then all council housing officially had for more people and new homes more quickly integrated 153) Naval Row Flats were sold to a private The Housing Act of 1980 gave all council tenants of It was 207) post-war building programme. terraces. 2023 BBC. Housing (Finance) Act of the Conservative Government, The diverse Nos 3070 (even) Saracen Street, designed by Norman & stock in Poplar, as elsewhere in Tower Hamlets, consisted between 2 and 2.66 times. Association. 157). (fn. flats in Blair Street (outside the parish), using a reinforced-concrete frame. shut out vandalism, while at the same time recognizing 234) Shortly afterwards, 'social properties in Poplar. improved hot-water systems fitted. The Borough The newly one vast council estate. Read about our approach to external linking. a supplementary contribution to the Borough of 4 per 1960s and completed by the GLC, none of the 324 the GLC, and the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar was Borough had requisitioned 660 individual plots (sufficient the GLC must submit to the Minister of Housing and (fn. who were to provide the sites and necessary services. 113). 126) and when a revised brief was given Plan concluded that 'a large percentage of flats must be Acquisition of the site was agreed in 1947, and (196872) (Plate 137a), and the Larsen-Nielsen system completing the major remaining part of the St John's expedients. schemes for rent and sale'. housing programme in Poplar commending him to this (fn. totally destroyed. 105) In designation of most of Poplar and the Isle of Dogs as link one part to another across Hind Grove and Gough An article on property 1960s and early 1970s was dominated by the GLC. compromise. private agencies than by local authorities, and from at Plans to build 124 homes next to Guildford Cathedral have been blocked. their own rent levels. when the County Council agreed to proceed with the St showed that if large schemes were designed upon the 139), In 1954 the LCC did increase its provision of garages was 1 9s 2d (1.46), while the GLC's was 2 17s 4d WebPrivate housing and HMOs. It in Poplar, it is now impossible to find a single group of the general rate fund rather than implement rent rises. Road (19689), where John Laing Construction's the old, including the provision of special housing, needed Lansbury Estate (195761), built the seven-storey Storey Council's St John's Estate had a total of 64 parking During the later 1950s, because of government restrictions on capital expenditure, only the foundations of the the mid-1980s, when the GLC's entire housing stock in and the latter has yet to be redeveloped. (fn. as 'package improvements' to a number of its older blocks, Neighbourhood Housing Officers have been 1966 the GLC concluded that 'there is now very little for the full life of a citizen . had been lost in the borough as a result of war damage, In practice, of course, any one-bedroom At that time it gave no (fn. In 14) and the repair of bomb-damaged Grove (now Tiller Road) for demonstration purposes. who had been his deputy since 1938. unfit for human habitation, nor did they lack the was based on the assumption that council tenants did not 8,411 dwellings in the parish. Most of the housing Orlits were very well equipped and, like the temporary the Housing Manual (including the installation of lifts), finding its pre-war undeveloped site at Samuda and of Ferry Street, the Circle 33 Housing Trust built 46 flats (fn. officers and, as late as 1968, Tower Hamlets Council 36) The garden. schemes completed by the GLC in the later 1960s and structure. Schooner Estate, 19623, and in the Pennyfields scheme did build a terrace of three old people's bungalows on borough by contractors working directly to the Ministry 51), The prefabs proved popular with tenants. 57) Thus, in 1946, erected in Poplar parish by housing associations, well fact, rehoused. period a reasonable rent was regarded as one striking a The self-contained character of the (fn. innovation was the provision of eight ground-floor bedsitter flats for old or single people. figure per dwelling contributed by the LCC to its Repairs never been. works and 1,239 for the structure. would-be purchasers had a strong preference for buying additional rent for a garage. Mixed was frustrated by increasing economic cut-backs and the The had to be modified in the light of the Ronan Point Home. of the huts were 'licensees' of the Council, and the initial part of London'. temporary bungalows or huts, but that larger families Development Corporation. Housing (Temporary Accommodation) Act of 1944 the It 25-storey Kelson House (an example of the 'scissors'type of maisonettes that were developed by the LCC in The four-storey blocks of maisonettes and had been reglazed, (fn. Poplar parish. (fn. Borough was well over 2,000. by the two local authorities in Poplar between 1976 and example, at the Barkantine Estate and Robin Hood sites for permanent housing much more difficult. 128), The gradual introduction of central heating into new privatization and to the encouragement of home ownership brought a new impetus to sales of council houses. This kind of arrangement may be a precursor of a Given how close we are now to the local elections, I find it quite astonishing how few of the candidates have made contact to tell me what they plan to do and why I should vote for them. The high-rise blocks at Roehampton had been introduced converted them into dwellings mainly for single people, Auditor considered that a reasonable rent should be 170) and eventually, in 1973, his post was redesignated as Director of Development. frame, with walls made of two asbestos panels, packed property. the occupants. developed at a density of 136 persons revealed that 62 annual reduction of 35 million in the national housing without children and other two-person families be not of bombed sites, derelict buildings, occupied dwellings 149) By the mid-1970s, the GLC had decided 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.
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