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Housing Development

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 27 Collections and/or Records:

Comprehensive Development Areas: Bermondsey, 1944-1959

 Sub-Series
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/3
Scope and Contents

Papers and plans relating to the London County Council Comprehensive Development Area no 3: Bermondsey:


  1. papers, ( 1950 )
  2. plans, ( 1944-1959 )
Dates: 1944-1959

Comprehensive Development Areas: City of London, 1947-1959

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

Material relating to different areas of London County Council's Comprehensive Development Area no 1: City of London:


  1. general, (1947-1958)
  2. New Barbican, (c1953-1959)
  3. Saint Paul's Cathedral Precinct, (c1950-1959)
  4. Tower of London Precinct, (c1957-c1959)
  5. City of London river frontages and skylines, (1955)
Dates: 1947-1959

Comprehensive Development Areas: Stepney / Poplar, 1940-1961

 Sub-Series
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2
Scope and Contents

Comprehensive development areas: Stepney / Poplar consists of:


  1. general papers, (1940-1961)
  2. Lansbury Comprehensive Development Area, (1940s-1950s)
  3. other areas, (1950s)
  4. plans, (1946-1950s)
Dates: 1940-1961

General work: Housing Division, 1946-1957

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/D/4.3
Scope and Contents

Files relating to the general work of the Housing Division of London County Council's Architect's Department:


  1. housing estate reports, (1955-1957)
  2. Housing Studies Group, (1946-1950)
Dates: 1946-1957

Housing Division: housing estate reports, 1955-1957

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/D/4.3.1
Scope and Contents Series of reports by the Housing Division of London County Council's Architect's Department. Each report is a "note" on a housing development built by the council which give full details of the schemes including the site, the buildings erected on it, anything notable about the buildings, and the team responsible for its construction and management. Additionally there is a report entitled "Flats and maisonettes in high buildings" and one entitled "The work of the Housing Management...
Dates: 1955-1957

Housing Division: Housing Studies Group, 1946-1950

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/D/4.3.2
Scope and Contents

File concerning the work of the Housing Study Group of the Town Planning Division of London County Council's Housing Division. The file consists of the group's minutes, manuscript and typescript drafts of reports and information sheets and the final printed sheets. The majority of these relate to studies on open spaces.

Dates: 1946-1950

Lansbury Comprehensive Development Area: East India Dock Road Neighbourhood model, 1949

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.2.5a
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1949

Lansbury Comprehensive Development Area: Lansbury 1st model, 1940s

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.2.5b
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1940s

Lansbury Comprehensive Development Area: Lansbury 2nd model, 1940s

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.2.5c
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1940s

Lansbury Comprehensive Development Area: Lansbury Market Square model (2), 1940s

 File
Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.2.5f
Scope and Contents

6 black and white photographic prints (12cm x 16cm) showing the Market Square scheme for Lansbury Neighbourhood, part of the London County Council Comprehensive Development Area no 2: Stepney / Poplar, designed by Sir Frederick Ernest Gibberd. 1 photograph shows the architectural model commissioned by the Town Planning Division of London County Council Architect's Department. at 1/16" scale. The remainder of the photographs show the realised market square and some housing in the area.

Dates: 1940s