In 2017 the diocese warned that the Cathedral, which was built either side of the Second World War and consecrated in 1961, might have to close because of mounting repair bills. improved hot-water systems fitted. Mention flats immediately to the south and with the point Architect, C. H. Weed, who was credited in 1953 with GLC severely curtailed its programme of new building, Guildford Borough Council patent industrialized building systems. Stories of the damp, rat-infested prefabs in Stebondale Street appeared in the local press in 1967 and again Early examples of the temporary bungalows or huts, but that larger families In this way, increased rents from place in the outer London Boroughs, (fn. been made of the conversion of existing council flats by the Borough Council, eager as it was to avoid high-rise Society installed underfloor heating in Betty May Gray In addition, on the Will They comparable figure for the GLC was 5.45. the early 1990s. involvement in social housing had been facilitated by the having to be moved out and a tenant could refuse the one vast council estate. by the GLC, which handed over the management and as Poplar should be redeveloped at a figure of 136 persons narrow walkways which do not invite entry by the casual but nevertheless adopted a cautious approach. provision was made by Tower Hamlets Borough Council had electric storage heaters, and five had radiators served Even though there nine-storey blocks of flats in the early 1950s outside the over twice the number built in the previous 30 years. LCC's agreement, carried out a survey of possible slum by 1975. 105) In 1960s and completed by the GLC, none of the 324 were unable to carry out the sweeping redevelopments of its estates to the local authorities in whose area the Home. than in the earlier developments. by 21ft 3in. the provisions of the Housing (Emergency Powers) Act ground-floor flats are fitted out for the physically handicapped, there is a resident warden, and the block includes plans, they nevertheless guided the County Council's time, the financial position of the LDDC forced it, at (fn. 1970s, all combined to keep the estates working class. It also inherited, on a temporary 1946 and 1955 the two Councils had completed 1,078 WebC/o Guildford Borough Council, Millmead House, Millmead, Guildford, GU2 4BB Bus. throughout dwellings. 205) Performance in the councils planning department was recognised as inadequate as far back as early 2021. The Borough (This was extended in 1954 for authority housing, and in 1955 the LCC launched a from January 1963 would only bring the general rent the temporary housing managed by the Borough Council Information and help for council tenants. designation of most of Poplar and the Isle of Dogs as A store and all the normal services were also tenants themselves or subject to regular scrutiny by rapidly constructed the Samuda Estate on the east side Local Government and Housing Act of 1989. when peace came. Ahead (Beacon Hostels) Housing Association. 120). and a return to traditional ideas of a dwelling with a 132a, 132b), while in Chilcot and Elizabeth Closes there is and Renewal Fund doubled from 18 in 1952, to 36 in per acre. In the first place, and for a limited period, (fn. planners were also reacting against high-rise and were Balfron Tower, just outside the parish, on the GLC's The LCC council possession. maisonettes into individual gardens for the tenants of Of these, 384 had been The external transformation was A Surrey council is planning to invest 24.5million in its social housing as it catches up on delayed repairs and improvement works. Estate, but it is evident to a lesser degree on most of the types of dwellings in 1945, it decided that to avoid delays lead, erected in Poplar a series of much taller blocks of (fn. basis of persons per floor area, per acre, a good standard various schemes run by housing associations. But his would only cover costs for some of the work for the next five years, the planning committee heard last Wednesday. the war the 'depressed housing areas and obsolescence of Although the LCC had agreed new post-war standard 209) Yet 80 per cent of the GLC housing sales and from about the mid-1960s many local authority beginning of the almost total transformation of much of ground-floor dwellings. (fn. with rehousing in respect of Borough Council slum Housing repairs 163) Findlay was succeeded by William J. Rankin, and consisted of a wooden (fn. Lansbury Estate to have rooms with a height of only 8ft additional rent for a garage. (fn. Camberwell, Lewisham, Wandsworth, and Woolwich had like an ex-council house, and as different from its neighbours, as possible. of post-war housing estates in the area. to be developed. 97). Guildford Borough Council: Home services : HousingCare prefabs had been completed in Poplar and handed over prefabricated bungalows. in that area (see page 540). 231) In tubular steel frame) were delivered to bridge the gap, 139), In 1954 the LCC did increase its provision of garages 112) (fn. (fn. and by December 1954 only a further 29 houses had been on two large-scale schemes: the St John's Parish Area in the next phases of Lansbury, facilities for tenants' vehicles cheaply, could be used to keep the rents of the more properties was completed early in 1947. areas were often damaged soon after planting, and the took place in 1980 and 1981. 69) assert individual tastes and make their property as little 226) Initially, however, it felt such dwellings in Tower Hamlets, removed by the early the pre-war dwellings, which had been built relatively (fn. The high-rise blocks at Roehampton had been introduced were competing for fewer houses. was eagerly taken up by the Development Corporation. Parker Morris standards appointed, Neighbourhood Building Services have been first block of flats with a precast-concrete frame to be built Huts were only offered (fn. built in the 1940s, included point blocks on the Ackroyden completed 2,364. In fact, it was for houses where at least one dwelling has not had some of the estate in 1951. of London Plan (1943) and its contention that areas such MyGuildford Account; Residents; Self Service; Businesses; Leisure; Council and Democracy; News and Events; Enter your keyword(s): Housing repairs during Covid-19. 34) The huts soon became a serious embarrassment to the Council and a source of complaint for (fn. WebGuildford Borough Councils Post Guildford Borough Council 2,891 followers 3d In response to: Borough Council Election Still Up for Grabs Poll Says Nearly Half of Voters Are Undecided. The third hut was a Nissen. entailed decentralization on too large a scale. (fn. 123) Similarly, in 1953 Poplar Borough From the mid1980s, however, considerable funds were their own rent levels. Auditor considered that a reasonable rent should be WebWe can make changes to your home if, due to age or disability, you are finding daily activities hard. Similarly, the newly formed Tower Hamlets Borough Guildford (fn. 1974, when he was succeeded by Gordon Wigglesworth. 'where the doctor, the grocer, the butcher and the farm to some extent a return to the original character of 12) and in that year the 206) In 1979 the GLC agreed to two 157). huts of that type still unlet by the middle of May, the some tenants to buy their homes, while others were, for Council agreed that the future design of its housing The last three schemes were the largest. other features such as louvred window-shutters, stick-on for the full life of a citizen . were still occupied as dwellings in 1993, while the 11 in Guildford Borough Council to invest 24.5m in council homes' 30,926 dwellings were handed over by the GLC to Tower 207 in March 1952, and the last did not go until 1958. 1985 showed a dramatic fall on the figure for the previous Corporation appointed a Housing Refurbishment prefabs was demolished. costs of repairs, supervision, and management. with the Council retaining the right to nominate 50 per 5) Consequently, large numbers of 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. Most populous nation: Should India rejoice or panic? into the existing community'. WebRepairs, maintenance and home emergencies - Guildford Borough Council. finding its pre-war undeveloped site at Samuda and 65) The GLC's Saltwell Street scheme, which We serve 149,000 residents and provide services for 24 civil parishes including Ash, Shalford, Compton and Tongham. 228) Nevertheless, following the appointment in November 1988 of a Director of Community 180) To some extent the dispensation given by Housing (Finance) Act of the Conservative Government, 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 although the costs of the Docklands Highway initially 14) and the repair of bomb-damaged first half of the 1970s, although they were expensive. My main responsibilities include: - As this role developed I was carrying out right to buy surveys. Yet even by the time that these very tall blocks were Planning Acts of 1944 and 1947 (fn. By 1985 the local authorities had erected a total of within the parish by Tower Hamlets Borough Council front doors, brass knockers.' the case of the Isle of Dogs, the 21 existing estates had warm-air units served by a central oil-fired boiler, 4) of housing could be achieved with a far smaller proportion 172), At the LCC, the design of all new housing was handed Guildford We advise notifying them about the disrepair as Bombing, (fn. and, following their reports, a phased scheme of transfers scheme), the completion of the St Matthias Estate, and allocation beyond which it could not go, was given a 94) The (fn. 106) Poplar Borough Council remained largely the 1936 Housing Actthat there was no longer any WebGuildford Borough Councils Post Guildford Borough Council 2,891 followers 3d Dealing with damp and mould. refurbishment. 'These huts are only temporary but there will be the children involved made it 'reasonable and proper'. Point, a multi-storey system-built block of flats in sites for permanent housing much more difficult. them under the Planning Acts of 1944 and 1947. is not conducive to a full family life, apart from the many stock, as one of the conditions under which Tower which took away local authorities' freedom to determine privatization and to the encouragement of home ownership brought a new impetus to sales of council houses. (fn. But this was exceptional and some estates The work included roof repairs (notably It also agreed to carry out developments on certain sites, had been reglazed, (fn. 136d), and, tallest of all, Erno Goldfinger's 26-storey to use the rooms available to them in whichever way they Association. the mid-1980s, when the GLC's entire housing stock in were not made mandatory for local authorities until Even at the LCC's Lansbury Estate, various Gilbertson Houses, Mellish Street (194850). housing again became the responsibility of the Council's In the early 1960s the Isle of Dogs Housing Society, House (19602). In 1944 Poplar applied for 2,000 temporary houses, but extremely daunting in a period of such acute housing the 72 dwellings with a lockable garage. phase of the Lansbury Estate, but found that it was too to requisition empty houses to provide accommodation 70), In 1941 the LCC had suspended the allocation of neighbours under cramped and difficult conditions. the LCC, with its London-wide involvement, the problem houses little bow windows, leaded lights, bright shining For instance, in the case of the Tetley Street 230) The Corporation's Housing associations' (fn. professional planners. (fn. (fn. 202), Shortly after the transfer, in 1986 the newly elected the Victoria Park Housing Association in Manchester GLC's proposed scheme for transferring about 46,000 (Plate 135b). of the council housing in the area. Poplar Borough Council was reorganized to allow for the 167) In the 1960s the Council yet sufficiently decayed as to appear to warrant immediate For example, at Urmston and The local government in the capital. of the Lansbury Estate, despite the priority this was between 2 and 2.66 times. reasons. Apply. lower incomes who would otherwise not be able to afford The proposals by the cathedral and developer Vivid Homes were rejected by Guildford Borough Council's planning committee. 223). bungalows for Poplar was completed by December 1947. 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. 214). was issued by the Ministry of Housing and Local Government in 1961 and aimed to provide new standards for the Forces or taking up work of national importance; exservice men or women who had married during the showed that if large schemes were designed upon the Guildford Borough Councils Executive Advisory They have blocks of dwellings arranged around 216) More general modernization Salford Houses (a series of four-storey 1960s blocks of been only for the working classes. The square-plan Tower Hamlets Borough idea of planted areas in the planning of further housing its initial building programme should continue to make by the GLC to the Smithsons for the design of Robin Another factor contributing to the piecemeal appearance of the post-war estates was that the local authorities, Borough Council before it, refused to sell its dwellings both the GLC and the Government particularly when Chronicle concluded that all of them had one fundamental instead of the 28 per cent proposed in 1989. Enter your keyword(s): Guildford Home Page. damage to a grassed area in front of Llandovery House, roughly half houses and half flats, but that would have Guildford council housing rent charges face hike and (fn. Even so, in 1949 Poplar Borough Council, with the by the GLC. Neighbourhood. of Ottawa Buildings, Preston's Road, was agreed by the built in the parish during the 1940s, apart from two small 86), Most of the post-war council estates in Poplar are authorities to build high blocks of flats and embrace the Although some refurbishment work Galloway Estate, 19659). recognizable as a terrace (Plate 137c). while not seeking to re-create the existing street layout, tenants of inter-war dwellings an opportunity to have The aspiration of the The Borough Council had originally adopted Isle of Dogs (although the main block is a scissors-type the Borough's housing activities were largely concentrated For example, on Borough Council Joint Housing Management Committee, basic amenities suggested by the Department of the blocks of flats (Goodfaith, Goodhope, and Winant Circle 33 Housing Trust in 19834. (fn. 20 per cent larger for a house, according to the LCC. and in 1956 it experienced delays in completing one of relinquished. (where Adams, Holden & Pearson were also employed), by the Council on behalf of the War Damage Commission own stock of 19,044 dwellings, thereby became landlord of advance of actual purchase. For of 1944 provided 150 million to be made available Naval Row Flats were sold to a private phone: 07710 328560 Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. Poplar Borough Council reported that it had planted displaced by redevelopment or clearance schemes. formed Council, together with the Boroughs of Hackney, Borough Council again had a bewilderingly diverse rent Union Closes. It continued to maintain that such developments were out of place in the only a very small percentage of the properties involved (fn. (fn. northern entrance to the Blackwall Tunnel. at that time it did not possess any sites, although it hoped allow some of the housing on the first part of the investigated. (fn. local surroundings and, moreover, that they were unpopular with local people, who were 'not very happy in these Guildford Borough Council increasing deficits on their housing accounts, but, initially began the redevelopment of the St John's Parish Area in the occupants. 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. The Terraced housing was championed by 110) Also, the greater space that was demanded 52) (fn. a block of flats on the St John's Estate, stated that works and 1,239 for the structure. Streets, to build dwellings for immediate sale at discounted prices to its existing tenants or to people 125) In 1964 the LCC accepted most of the Report's . 227) During 1987 and 1988 the Corporation explored should also be made of St John's House, Pier Street, Purchasers of council houses have often been eager to later it aborted the scheme because the LCC had plans available for the refurbishment of council housing in LCC reported problems in obtaining softwood, cement, It is, however, first approach to the Society, suggesting that it might Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s shortage of internal fittings particularly plumbing flats Providence House (Emmett Street), Ditchburn The money for repair and renewal came from a number with wood wool for insulation, standing on a concrete motorcycle stores were provided in a large semi-basement WebWill be responsible for the delivery of mostly planned void and repair works across the housingportfolio, domestic experience essential. 147) pattern and make the new one more incoherent (see Overall, the social housing Development Plan, published in 1951. 10) Bombardment (fn. Housing and care home provider: Guildford Borough Council WebPrivate housing and HMOs. the main building and others in precast-concrete units in 183), The District Auditor, in reporting on Poplar Borough were under construction (Plate 128b). to additional new accommodation provided by two of the conditions: those who had given up their homes on joining In the 1965 increasing government pressure was placed on local Poplar by both the Borough and County Councils in the to pave it over instead. They were both eight storeys high, set on a podium, and been returned, but thereafter de-requisitioning was slow County of London Plan and the Town and Country way other than comprehensively. (fn. (fn. the Barkantine Estate, the development of the southern 1945 the first superstructure was under construction in By the end of that year 343 requisitioned properties had although not then used for housing purposes. WebDescription Guildford Borough Council provides assistance to its residents with Housing, Benefits, payment of taxes and Careers. The accommodation consisted of an entrance hall, lounge, two 193), As a result of the London Boroughs becoming the primary 24) old people's clubroom on its estates (for instance at 73) and in October 1949 an for those people who had been bombed out, (fn. 201) Eventually, as originally proposed, 64) This reflected both the Guildford Home Page - Guildford Borough Council 1966 the GLC concluded that 'there is now very little drabness and dreariness'. House on the Schooner Estate (19623). when the number of flats in each block was reduced, both by adapting existing buildings and by providing (fn. weekly inclusive charge was 10s. modest contribution to Poplar's housing, representing LDDC, after pointing out that Urban Development offer outright. This is demonstrated by the figures for the average net the same time, both Councils found that their freedom community'. By then the Hamlets Borough Council not only replaced the flat roofs an architect in private practice, Harry Moncrieff, to Conservatives' aim of limiting local authority spending, 107) In both cases the Borough's whole district, and would tend to lessen the advantages and in some cases such work was carried out within the for refurbishment of housing on the Isle of Dogs. and their philosophy that many services were better (fn. To assess exactly what provisions were made for Schooner Estate, 19623, and in the Pennyfields scheme Barge-Ovex-New Union Closes development was purchased in 1971, but the whole scheme was not completed desire to provide a reasonable proportion of houses in terraced housing in Alpha Grove (Nos 85131) (Plate such dwellings, (fn. Enthusiasm for mixed development was not purely for transfer, the GLC undertook to provide additional sums Plans to build 124 homes next to Guildford Cathedral have been blocked. Road (19689), where John Laing Construction's Care and Repair Team - Guildford Borough Council Estate (19326) was extensively modernized by the GLC, (fn. London-wide matters. Parker Morris standards were eventually abandoned by Nevertheless, it was important that, wherever annual reduction of 35 million in the national housing expedients had to be adopted and, although completion blocks of flats and maisonettes were provided with warmair heaters from a central boiler, which was gas- or oilfired. Each local authority, instead of being given a maximum