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

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Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Plans: Area of comprehensive development no 2 - Stepney / Poplar, 1950s

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.4.3
Scope and Contents 38 copy plans by the Reconstruction Areas Group of the Town Planning Division of London County Council's Architect's Department comprising plans of the neighbourhoods of Comprehensive Development Area No 2: Stepney and Poplar. The plans comprise: 16 Ordnance Survey base plans (69cm x 102cm) at 1:1250 scale for each neighbourhood unit in Stepney / Poplar with a location plan indicating which neighbourhood...
Dates: 1950s

Plans: Areas in the Stepney / Poplar neighbourhoods, 1949-1958

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.4.4
Scope and Contents

18 copy plans (approximately 55cm x 80cm) by the Reconstruction Areas Group of the Town Planning Division of London County Council's Architect's Department. The plans are development details for discrete areas of different neighbourhoods in Comprehensive Development Area no 2: Stepney / Poplar at 1" to 88' scale. Some of the plans are hand-coloured and 1 is on transparency. The majority have information concerning the proposed land use and housing density in the developments.

Dates: 1949-1958

Plans: geographical themed plans of Stepney / Poplar Comprehensive Development Area, December 1954

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.4.5
Scope and Contents

Set of 11 numbered copy plans (33cm x 81cm) by Tom Bigwood of the Comprehensive Development Area No 2: Stepney / Poplar. These are themed sketch plans covering issues such as historical growth of the area, war damage, housing patterns, geographical areas and public transport at 6" to 1 mile scale.

Dates: December 1954

Plans of Lansbury Neighbourhood: East India Dock Road Neighbourhood, c1955-1958

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.2.6k
Scope and Contents

Manuscript bird's-eye perspective drawing (69cm x 104cm) by the Reconstruction Areas Group of the Town Planning Division of London County Council's Architect's Department, showing the layout of an area which is probably East India Dock Road Neighbourhood of the Stepney / Poplar Comprehensive Development Area in London. The drawing is at approximately 1:2500 scale and is in felt-tip pen and coloured pencil on transparency, with the River [Thames] in the foreground.

Dates: c1955-1958

Plans: Stepney / Poplar Comprehensive Development Area redevelopment key map, 25 March 1953

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.4.6
Scope and Contents

4 copy plans (67cm x 104cm) by the Reconstruction Areas Group of the Town Planning Division of London County Council's Architect's Department. These plans are variants of the redevelopment key map for Comprehensive Development Area No 2: Stepney / Poplar. The plans show all the housing areas in the neighbourhood units in Stepney and Poplar with colour coded land use zoning. The final plan shows colour coded development progress. The plans are hand coloured.

Dates: 25 March 1953

Plans: Stepney / Poplar perspective drawing, April 1950

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.4.10
Scope and Contents

Manuscript perspective architectural drawing (29cm x 34cm) by J Newel Lewis of Norman & Dawbarn Ltd of a street corner in proposed housing development in Comprehensive Development Area no 2: Stepney / Poplar.

Dates: April 1950

Plans: Stepney / Poplar reconstruction area and first period operations, 1949-1951

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.4.8
Scope and Contents 2 copy plans (69cm x 102cm) by the Reconstruction Areas Group of the Town Planning Division of London County Council's Architect's Department. The plans cover the whole of Comprehensive Development Area No. 2: Stepney / Poplar. 1 plan shows areas of early development for the each of the neighbourhood units in the area, along with the names of the planners responsible for the individual neighbourhoods, at 12" to 1 mile scale. The second plan shows areas designated for 1st period operations at...
Dates: 1949-1951

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Housing Development 6
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