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This is a list of notable council estates. Public housing in the United Kingdom has typically consisted of council houses , often built in the form of large estates by local government councils. Becontree in The London Borough of Barking & Dagenham is generally considered to be the largest council estate (in terms of population).
A council house, corporation house or council flat is a form of British public housing built by local authorities. A council estate is a building complex containing a number of council houses and other amenities like schools and shops. Construction took place mainly from 1919 to 1980s, as a result of the Housing Act 1919. Though more council ...
The Blackbird Leys Estate was built mainly in the 1950s and 1960s to meet the then pressing need for housing. [7] It was part of a plan to re-house people from the dilapidated inner city. This included large-scale clearance of a site near to where the Oxford Ice Rink was built . Many of the families that moved onto the estate originally came ...
Northway is a suburb in northeast Oxford, England, just inside the Oxford ring road. It is near Marston and the John Radcliffe Hospital. It mainly consists of social housing built by Oxford City Council in the 1950s, though many houses and apartments are now in private ownership. [1] To the southwest is Headley Way and to the northwest is Marsh ...
The oldest homes on the residential estate were built between 1936 and 1939 to house people from the dilapidated slum dwelling around Jericho and St. Ebbes. Much of this housing was designed by George C Robb (1903–80), Chief Housing Assistant to the City Engineer's Department of Oxford City Council between 1938 and 1941.
Ireland’s housing crisis The specter of emigration has lingered in Ireland’s history, defined by a devastating famine between 1845 and 1852 that caused an estimated 2.1 million people to flee ...
In the Ministry of Dáil Éireann in the Irish Republic (1919–22), a Ministry of Local Government was established on 2 April 1919. [4] In the Irish Free State, there was a Minister for Local Government as part of the first Executive Council of the Irish Free State established in 1922.
Pages in category "Housing in the Republic of Ireland" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.