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Early in the Victorian era, the Select Committee on the Health of Towns reported in 1840 that Liverpool's court housing were unventilated, had minimal sanitary provisions and were filthy. Water was from a single communal pipe that could be cut-off if the tenant fell into debt. From 1861, Liverpool banned the construction of back-to-back houses. [3]
In Liverpool, back-to-back court housing was once home to more than 40 per cent of its population, [30] before demolition during the 1960s and 1970s as part of slum house clearance programmes. A set of nine pairs of these houses survived and were restored as part of a museum attraction. [ 31 ]
Between 1895 and 1918, Liverpool engaged in wide-scale slum clearances, and constructed more homes than any authority outside of London. New housing was intended for tenants displaced by demolition of their old home, although not everyone displaced was re-homed, and only those who could pay the rent were offered a new home. [5]
The Housing, Town Planning, etc. Act 1909 (9 Edw. 7.c. 44) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which prevented the building of "back-to-back" houses.The act also meant local authorities must introduce systems of town planning and meant homes had to be built to certain legal standards.
The Housing Act 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5. c. 39) otherwise known as the Greenwood Act, is an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom. It encouraged mass slum clearance and councils to set to work to demolish poor quality housing and replace it with new build. Subsidies for general housing, were given, these were calculated on the number of people ...
Fixing the housing crisis and creating a broad scale public housing program that makes these groups’ lives better promises to give these crucial constituencies a reason to turn out to vote.
It empowered local authorities to condemn slum housing, but not to purchase the land or finance new housing. The Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890 (53 & 54 Vict. c. 70) gave urban authorities the legal power to buy land and to construct tenements and housing estates. The 1900 act empowered authorities to purchase land for the same purpose ...
Street names in a new housing estate will celebrate an area's heritage after a developer was accused of "disregarding" the area's history. Persimmon Homes called the 316-home development, north of ...