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Public housing became needed to provide "homes fit for heroes" in 1919, [5] [6] then to enable slum clearance.Standards were set to ensure high-quality homes. Aneurin Bevan, a Labour politician, passionately believed that council houses should be provided for all, while the Conservative politician Harold Macmillan saw council housing "as a stepping stone to home ownership". [7]
Typical Tudor Revival flats on Monks Drive, in the Garden Estate. Hanger Hill or Haymills Estate is a local area of the London Borough of Ealing around Hanger Lane . It was developed in the interwar period when affluent Londoners began to move out of Central London for more green spaces. The estate features spacious houses and flats designed by ...
Built by London County Council outside of the then-limits of County of London. Population over 100,000; asserted to be the largest public housing development in the world. Chalkhill Estate: 1966–70 built Wembley Park area of Brent, London: 1,900
Cottage flats, also known as four-in-a-block flats, are a style of housing common in Scotland, where there are single floor dwellings at ground level, and similar dwellings on the floor above. All have doors directly to the outside of the building, rather than into a 'close', or common staircase, although some do retain a shared entrance.
out-county Mottingham: Chislehurst: out-county Norbury: Norbury: out-county: 1906–10 Old Oak: Hammersmith: suburban Oxhey: South Oxhey: out-county St Helier: Morden: out-county Totterdown Fields: Tooting: suburban: 1903–11 St Paul's Cray: Orpington: out-county Watling Estate: Burnt Oak: out-county: 1926–30 Whitefoot Lane: Catford ...
The stone building at Knap of Howar, Orkney, one of the oldest surviving houses in north-west Europe. The oldest house for which there is evidence in Scotland is the oval structure of wooden posts found at South Queensferry near the Firth of Forth, dating from the Mesolithic period, about 8240 BCE. [1]
Cables Wynd House, better known as the Leith Banana Flats [1] [2] or the Banana Block [3] because of its curved shape, is a nine-storey local authority housing block in Leith, Edinburgh. The building, in fact, has ten storeys.
In 1952 there was a failed attempt to gain county borough status. [1] In 1965, under the London Government Act 1963, the municipal borough was abolished and its former area transferred to Greater London to be combined with the Municipal Borough of Acton and Municipal Borough of Southall to form the present-day London Borough of Ealing. [3]