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General work: Housing Division, 1946-1957

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/D/4.3
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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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / London County Council / London County Council: Architect's Department / London County Council Architect's Department: general work

General work: proofs of evidence, 1950-1957

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/D/4.5
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File of proofs of evidence, presented by Percy Johnson-Marshall on behalf of London County Council, for planning appeals under the Town and Country Planning Act, 1947. The file includes the legal documentation for a number of proofs of evidence for Stepney, London and the City of London. It also contains correspondence concerning these, and typescript and manuscript drafts. There are also 2 maps, one of the Barbican area of London and one of the centre of Toronto, Canada.

Dates: 1950-1957
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / London County Council / London County Council: Architect's Department / London County Council Architect's Department: general work

General work: town planning policy and progress meetings, 1954-1958

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/D/4.4
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File relating to meetings of the Town Planning Policy and Progress Group of the Town Planning Division of London County Council's Architect's Department. The file consists of the minutes and agenda of the meetings and associated reports.

Dates: 1954-1958
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / London County Council / London County Council: Architect's Department / London County Council Architect's Department: general work

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / London County Council / London County Council: Architect's Department / London County Council Architect's Department: general work / General work: Housing Division

Housing Division: Housing Studies Group, 1946-1950

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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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / London County Council / London County Council: Architect's Department / London County Council Architect's Department: general work / General work: Housing Division

International Centre for Regional Planning and Development (ICRPD): mixed papers (2), 1956

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Identifier: PJM/ICRPD/3
Scope and Contents Papers, minutes and correspondence for the International Centre for Regional Planning and Development (ICRPD) Provisional Committee. The file also contains papers relating to the ICRPD British Group (also called Association for Regional Planning) including minutes for their Management Sub-committee and Preparatory Committee. There is also a copy of an interim report on the International Conference on Regional Planning and Development which was held at Bedford College, London, in 1955....
Dates: 1956
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / International Centre for Regional Planning and Development (ICRPD)

International Centre for Regional Planning and Development (ICRPD): mixed papers (3), 1957

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Identifier: PJM/ICRPD/4
Scope and Contents Papers, minutes and correspondence for the International Centre for Regional Planning and Development (ICRPD) Provisional Committee. The file also contains papers relating to the ICRPD British Group (also called Association for Regional Planning) including minutes for their Management Sub-committee and Preparatory Committee. There is also a copy of an interim report on the International Conference on Regional Planning and Development which was held at Bedford College, London, in 1955....
Dates: 1957
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / International Centre for Regional Planning and Development (ICRPD)

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / London County Council / London County Council: Comprehensive Development Areas / Comprehensive Development Areas: Stepney / Poplar / Stepney / Poplar: Lansbury Neighbourhood / Lansbury Neighbourhood: photographs

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

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Identifier: PJM/LCC/E/2.2.5b
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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.

Dates: 1940s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / London County Council / London County Council: Comprehensive Development Areas / Comprehensive Development Areas: Stepney / Poplar / Stepney / Poplar: Lansbury Neighbourhood / Lansbury Neighbourhood: photographs

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Percy Johnson-Marshall Collection / London County Council / London County Council: Comprehensive Development Areas / Comprehensive Development Areas: Stepney / Poplar / Stepney / Poplar: Lansbury Neighbourhood / Lansbury Neighbourhood: photographs

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