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London County Council. Architect's Department, Town Planning Division

 Organization

Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:

Committee reports and agenda: Town Planning Committee, 1950-1959

 Sub-Series
Identifier: PJM/LCC/A/1
Scope and Contents

Committee reports and agenda: Town Planning Committee consists of:


  1. agenda , (1950-1958)
  2. reports, (1945-1959)
  3. notes of decisions, (1958-1959)
  4. County Planning Report, (1950s)
  5. sub-committee papers, (1950-1959)
Dates: 1950-1959

Exhibitions: exhibition poster and plan, c1951

 Item
Identifier: PJM/LCC/D/5.2
Scope and Contents Poster (37cm x 44cm) advertising the exhibition, hosted by London County Council Architect's Department, "Planning and Building in NE London" to be held in County Hall, London from 9-23 October c1951. The poster is printed in blue and white with a map of a suburban street layout, at approximately 1:2500 scale, as a background image. Floor plan (50cm x 84cm) by Sir Robert Hogg Matthew, of an exhibition layout at 1/8" to 1' scale. This is probably a plan for "Planning and Building...
Dates: c1951

London County Council: Architect's Department, 1940s-1964

 Series
Identifier: PJM/LCC/D
Scope and Contents

London County Council: Architect's Department consists of:


  1. Administrative County of London Development Plan, 1951, (1945-1958)
  2. planning manuals and methodologies, (1940s-1959)
  3. staffing issues, (1945-1959)
  4. general work, (1944-1964)
  5. exhibitions, (1951-1959)
  6. sociological reports, (1951-1957)
Dates: 1940s-1964

New Barbican: redevelopment plans, 1954-1958

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/1.2.2
Scope and Contents 2 reports with accompanying photographs and plans concerning the redevelopment of the Barbican area, part of London County Council's Comprehensive Redevelopment Area no 1: City of London. The first; New Barbican ( 29 September 1954) is by Kadleigh, Whitfield & Horsburgh, and was commissioned by the New Barbican Committee who presented it to London County Council. This outlines a comprehensive...
Dates: 1954-1958

New Barbican: reports and the public enquiry, 1953-1959

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/1.2.1
Scope and Contents File of papers relating to the redevelopment of the Barbican area of London as part of London County Council's Comprehensive Development Area no 1: City of London. The file consists of a number of reports concerning the scheme by either London County Council's Architect's Department, the Corporation of London Improvements and Town Planning Committee or Chamberlin, Powell & Bon, the architects commissioned to create the scheme. There are also a number of proofs of evidence and related...
Dates: 1953-1959

Plans: Mixed Barbican Development Plans, 1955-1958

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/1.2.5c
Scope and Contents 4 copy plans relating to the redevelopment of the Barbican Comprehensive Development Area in London. "Barbican 27 storey building Moor Lane" (38cm x 51cm) - layout plan is at 44' to 1" scale, 1958 "Annex B" (55cm x 70cm) - a plan with a numbered index to sites and their areas according to the development plan at 88' to 1" scale, January 1956 "Barbican Area" (50cm x 76cm)...
Dates: 1955-1958

Plans: New Barbican accommodation schedule original proposals, c1955

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/1.2.5b
Scope and Contents

3 copy plans (33cm x 40cm) probably by the Town Planning Division of London County Council's's Architect's Department showing a cross-section of the proposed Barbican development and the number of square feet of accommodation available at each section of each level. 2 of the plans are identical except for some hand written notes. the third differs slightly in the area calculations.

Dates: c1955

Plans of Lansbury Neighbourhood: house plans and elevations, 1950s

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.2.6n
Scope and Contents

8 copy architectural plans (51cm x 55cm) for housing developments in Lansbury, London. This was the part of Lansbury Neighbourhood, (Neighbourhood no 9) of London County Council Comprehensive Development Area no 2: Stepney and Poplar, which became the subject of the "Live Architecture Exhibition" at the Festival of Britain, 1951. The plans consist of miscellanous plans and elevations, at a variety of scales, for different house types designed by London County Council Architect's Division.

Dates: 1950s

Plans of Lansbury Neighbourhood: Peking Close, 1950s

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.2.6j
Scope and Contents 5 copy architectural plans (52cm x 57cm) for a housing development at Peking Close off East India Dock Road, Lansbury, London. This was the part of Lansbury Neighbourhood, (neighbourhood no 9) of London County Council Comprehensive Development Area no 2: Stepney and Poplar, which became the subject of the "Live Architecture Exhibition" at the Festival of Britain, 1951.The plans consist of miscellanous plans and elevations, at 2 different scales, by London County Council Architect's...
Dates: 1950s

Plans: Rennie memorial - proposed resiting of monument, 18 January 1956

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/4.8.17
Scope and Contents

Copy plan (68cm x 113cm) by the Town Planning Division of London County Council's Architect's Department showing the proposed resiting of the Memorial to John Rennie, the designer of Waterloo Bridge, London. The plan comprises; the existing elevation and section and proposed elevation and section, of the memorial, both at 1/8" to 1' scale, elevations and plans of Waterloo Bridge at 30" to 1' scale and a perspective drawing of the proposed new site on the bridge.

Dates: 18 January 1956

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