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Comprehensive development areas: Stepney / Poplar consists of:

Scope and Contents File of papers relating to the "Live Architecture" exhibition in the Lansbury Neighbourhood of London County Council Comprehensive Development Area no 2: Stepney / Poplar which was staged by London County Council Architect's Department as part of the Festival of Britain in 1951. The exhibition showed the newly reconstructed neighbourhood and allowed public access to a number of the buildings. The file consists of: plans of the exhibition, some annotated with route plans for the walking tour;...

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File of typescript and manuscript drafts for talks and articles concerning the redevelopment of London County Council's Comprehensive Development Area no 2: Stepney / Poplar. Most are authored by Percy Johnson-Marshall, but other authors are represented including the Architect to the Council, Sir Robert Hogg Matthew.

Scope and Contents Photographs of London County Council Comprehensive development Area no 2: Stepney / Poplar: east end 1940s, (1940s) east end after reconstruction, (c1955-1961) aerial views, (1937-1951) basic house layouts, (1956) London County Council Housing Department visit, (c1958) historic map of the area, (1950s) ...

Scope and Contents File of completed planning application reports - form TP5, submitted under the Town and Country Planning Act, ( 1947) to London County Council Architect's Department Town Planning Division. These give details of a large number of proposed developments in the Comprehensive Development Areas of City of London, Stepney / Poplar and Bermondsey. There is also an index to the applications and a complete list of...

Scope and Contents General files relating to London County Council Comprehensive Redevelopment Area no 2: Stepney and Poplar. The files concern research into the area as a whole, and the work schedules for the Reconstruction Areas Group of the Town Planning Division of London County Council's Architect's Department, in relation to their work in the Stepney / Poplar area. There are: statistics for the area ...

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8 black and white photographic prints (23cm x 30cm and 16cm x 36cm) showing architectural models by the Town Planning Division of London County Council Architect's Department. The models are of the East India Dock Road Neighbourhood of the London County Council Comprehensive Development Area no 2: Stepney and Poplar and is at 32 feet to 1 inch scale.

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1 black and white photographic print (20cm x 24.5cm) showing an architectural model by the Town Planning Division of London County Council Architect's Department. The model is the first one which was prepared showing the whole of the Lansbury Neighbourhood, part of the London County Council Comprehensive Development Area no 2: Stepney / Poplar, needed to ensure that the first stage of reconstruction could proceed within a planned framework.

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4 black and white photographic prints (20cm x 24cm) showing an architectural model by the Town Planning Division of London County Council Architect's Department. The model is the second one which was prepared showing the whole of the Lansbury Neighbourhood, part of the London County Council Comprehensive Development Area no 2: Stepney / Poplar, with amendments, needed to ensure that the first stage of reconstruction could proceed within a planned framework.

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6 black and white photographic prints (21cm x 22cm) showing an architectural model commissioned by the Town Planning Division of London County Council Architect's Department. The model shows the Market Square scheme for Lansbury Neighbourhood, part of the London County Council Comprehensive Development Area no 2: Stepney / Poplar at 1/16" scale. The market was designed by Sir Frederick Ernest Gibberd.