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Housing Development

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

Found in 85 Collections and/or Records:

Festival of Britain Exhibition: posters, 1951

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.2.2b
Scope and Contents 2 posters (77cm x 102cm) advertising entry to, and the publicly open buildings in the reconstructed Lansbury Neighbourhood (Neighbouhood no 9) of the London County Council Comprehensive Development Area no 2: Stepney / Poplar. This was organised as the "Live Architecture Exhibition" in the Festival of Britain 1951. 1 poster, in full colour, graphically displays the idea of new homes rising from the rubble of post World War II destruction. The other poster in black and green gives general...
Dates: 1951

General comprehensive development areas files: plans - Administrative County of London Development Plan, 1951: areas of comprehensive development, 1951

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/9.2
Scope and Contents Plans of the Comprehensive development Areas designated by London County Council in the Administrative County of London Development Plan (1951) : : No 1 - City of London, (1951) No 2 - Stepney / Poplar, (1951) No 3 - Bermondsey, (1951) No 4 - South Bank, (1951) ...
Dates: 1951

General Comprehensive Development Areas files: plans - Research Group Area plans, c1950

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/9.3
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3 copy plans (83cm x113cm) by the Town Planning Division of London County Council's Architect's Department showing the location of London County Council administered property overdrawn on an Ordnance Survey Plan at 1:25000 scale. 1 shows the Reconstruction Areas, 1 shows housing estates with grid references and 1 shows fire stations.

Dates: c1950

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 Development at Morningside Park, 1879

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Identifier: LHB7/19/6
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Correspondence about the new houses being built at Morningside Park, and, in particular, complaints that the oriel window of one of the houses constitutes a building infringement.

Dates: 1879

Housing Division: housing estate reports, 1955-1957

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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

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/D/4.3.2
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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

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.2.5a
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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.

Dates: 1949

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

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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

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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