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Karbon Homes is a housing association in the United Kingdom, formed in 2017 as a merger between Cestria Community Housing and Isos Housing. The organisation owns more than 30,000 properties and houses over 80,000 people in Northern England. Karbon Homes additionally own 54North Homes, a separate entity who provide social housing in Leeds and York.
Plains Farm (known locally as Plainsy) is a suburb of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England, and is a council-built housing estate, erected in the Neighbouring areas include Silksworth , The Barnes, Thorney Close, Springwell and Farringdon .
Sunderland arc own 75% of the land, [1] currently occupied by a mixture of retail and commercial units including Park Lane Market. £147 million plans for the site include the creation of extensive retail space, public meeting spaces, cafes, bars and restaurants, and a 33-storey Skyscraper called the Spirit of Sunderland, which would be the ...
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 houses have been built since then, fewer have been built in recent years.
Ashbrooke developed through the Victorian era as Sunderland's first suburb. Originally occupied by large middle-class families, including much of Wearside's Jewish population, a fair number of the larger residences have been reorganised into dwellings of multiple occupancy, home to the local University of Sunderland's students and young ...
Silksworth is a suburb of the City of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear.The area can be distinguished into two parts, old Silksworth, the original village and township which has existed since the early middle ages, and New Silksworth, the industrial age colliery village which expanded north west of the original settlement.
In September 1834, the brig Bryan Abbs was for sale at an East London dock. [34] It had been built, as a snow , by Straker & Co. at Jarrow , completed July 1834. [ 35 ] It was bought by Francis Spaight (1790–1861), a merchant at Limerick , who in 1835 commissioned the Francis Spaight at Monkwearmouth. [ 36 ]
Strensall Common is an area of heathland some 6 miles (9.7 km) north of York and just to the east of the village of Strensall in the City of York, England. [2] The Strensall Common Act of 1884 allowed the War Department to compulsory purchase 1,080 acres (440 ha) of land to the east of the main road at Strensall covering a large portion of what is Strensall Common. [3]