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Postwar Reconstruction

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Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Created For = PJM

Found in 41 Collections and/or Records:

Plans: Bermondsey CDA and supplementary town map, 1950s

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/3.2.2
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Copy sketch plan (56cm x 103cm) probably by the Town Planning Division of London County Council's Architect's Department showing Bermondsey Comprehensive Development Area (CDA) and supplementary town map. The plan shows development status of areas within the CDA boundary.

Dates: 1950s

Plans of Lansbury Neighbourhood: East India Dock Road Neighbourhood - area and house plans, 1949-1950s

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.2.6c
Scope and Contents Area and house plans by the London County Council Architect's Department for the East India Dock Road neighbourhood of Lansbury. This was part of London County Council Comprehensive Development Area no 2: Stepney / Poplar. The plans consist of: 2 copy plans laid over Ordnance Survey maps of the East India Dock Road area at 1:1250 scale copy plan (29cm x 65cm) of the East India Dock Road...
Dates: 1949-1950s

Plans of Lansbury Neighbourhood: London County Council Calcutta Street site, 1952

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.2.6f
Scope and Contents 3 copy plans with hand colouring in paint and pencil (66cm x 98cm) by the Town Planning Division of the London County Council Architect's Department, showing a planned estate of flats at Calcutta Street in Stepney, London. These plans were presented to the London County Council Housing and Town Planning Joint Development Committee) on 16 January 1952 and their Town Planning Committee on 11 February 1952, and consist of: a location plan at 1:2500 scale and a colour coded location plan, at 1"...
Dates: 1952

Plans of Lansbury Neighbourhood: London County Council reconstruction area in Stepney / Poplar - neighbourhood no 9, c1949-1955

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.2.6b
Scope and Contents 3 copy plans (54cm x 121cm) by the Town Planning Division of the London County Council Architect's Department showing details of planned redevelopment in Lansbury (Neighbourhood no 9). This was the part 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 are by the Ordnance Survey at 88' to 1" scale. They show the original street pattern of the area, and are...
Dates: c1949-1955

Plans: Reconstruction areas in Bermondsey Town and Country Planning Act 1944, 1944

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/3.2.1
Scope and Contents 3 printed plans and by the Town Planning Division of London County Council's Architect's Department showing reconstruction areas in Bermondsey Town, London.,. The plans were published as part of the Town and Country Planning Act, ( 1944) 1 plan (77cm x 154cm) is an overdrawn Ordnance Survey plan at 1:2500 scale showing an "Article IV Direction: proposed declaratory area". the other 2 plans (26cm x...
Dates: 1944

Plans: Reconstruction areas in Stepney / Poplar, 1946-1947

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.4.1
Scope and Contents 6 printed plans (50cm x 89cm) by the Town Planning Division of London County Council Architect's Department showing the planned reconstruction areas in Stepney and Poplar in London. The plans are overprinted on Ordnance Survey base plan at 6 inches to 1 mile scale and comprise: a boundary plan "Declaratory order plan" - areas subject to Compulsory Purchase Order "Zoning...
Dates: 1946-1947

Plans: Scheme A site layout plans, February 1953

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/4.8.3
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2 copy architectural plans (69cm x 102cm) by the Town Planning Division of London County Council's Architect's Department showing the site layout for carparks and the airways terminal planned for London's South Bank. The plans are at 1/88" to 1' scale and show "Scheme A". 1 plan shows the excavation level for the planned car park and airport terminal. 1 plan shows the roof level for the whole scheme including the square footage and person capacity of each of the major buildings.

Dates: February 1953

Plans: South Bank permanent development (3), c1953

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/4.8.6
Scope and Contents Set of 5 mixed manuscript and copy plans (39cm x 76cm) by the Reconstruction Areas Group of the Town Planning Division of London County Council Architect's Department. The plans show the proposed permanent development for the South Bank in London, which includes the National Theatre, the Royal Festival Hall, a hotel, a science centre, an airport terminal and office buildings. The plans are at 1:2500 scale and are intended for reduction to half size for an article in the Journal of the Royal...
Dates: c1953

Plans: Stepney / Poplar community proposal plans, c1953

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.4.7
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3 copy plans (69cm x 103cm) by the London North East Group of the Town Planning Division of London County Council Architect's Department showing layout proposals for community housing developments in the Stepney and Poplar Comprehensive Development Areas of London. The plans are overdrawn on Ordnance Survey plans of the area at 1:2500 scale. There is 1 plan of Stepney, 1 of Poplar, and a mosaic of Poplar with no heading information

Dates: c1953

Plans: Upstream offices, 1953-1956

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/4.8.11
Scope and Contents 8 copy plans (69cm x 101cm) showing the planned development of Upstream Offices on the South Bank, London. This office tower block was part of the planned South Bank Permanent Development and was later occupied by the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies. 6 of the plans are by the Reconstruction Areas Group of the Town Planning Division of London County Council's Architect's Department. 1 plan comprises site plans and sections for alternative positions of the blocks at 1" to 88'...
Dates: 1953-1956