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of Council Housing Council of
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years 100 Celebrating Following the First World Nottingham’s War, the British Prime During the inter-war period, By the 1960s the old pre–1845 By 1980 around half of the Minister, David Lloyd George, Nottingham built 17,000 suburbs were earmarked city’s population lived in pledged ‘Habitations fit for council houses. The earliest for slum clearance, and council houses, but the the heroes who have won schemes were often quite government subsidies role of local authorities was the war’. The 1919 Addison modest such as 5–11 encouraged new high rise under scrutiny. Government Act enabled local authorities Woodville Drive in Sherwood developments. These often subsidies for new housing to build council housing on (7). The first large estate was included a mix of system- were cut back while the Right an unprecedented scale. built on Stockhill Lane, (8) built low rise housing and to Buy discount made it easier The experience of war consisting of 350 houses, maisonettes, such as those at for council tenants to own highlighted chronic health each with scullery, larder and New Sneinton (18). Braidwood their home. By 2005, 40% of PLACES &
problems and the potential water closet. Court in Hyson Green council houses in Nottingham
for civil disobedience originally formed part of large had been sold. The driving force was among dissatisfied returning
deck-access complex, though HOMES Councillor William Crane, chair For the Council this was a servicemen. A poor supply only the tower and shopping of the Housing Committee period of retrenchment and of housing was to blame precinct survive (19). from 1919 to 1957. Under his undoing the mistakes of the and archaic slums persisted direction he employed the Unfortunately many similar past. The problematic deck Images top–bottom & left– throughout Britain. skills of T. C. Howitt as City schemes were poorly built and access estates were either right: Red Lion Street, c.1919; The streets of Nottingham Architect to deliver Garden have since been demolished, demolished or converted into Aspley garden city housing; provide an excellent example City style estates such as such as those at Hyson maisonettes, for example Sherwood high rise; BISF of this history and continue can be seen at Aspley (9). At Green, Balloon Woods and Crabtree Farm (23), while the houses, Bilborough; system show the enduring appeal Wollaton Park Estate (10) they Old Basford. Many, however, popular prefabs of the 1940s built low rise, St Ann’s; 1990s of council housing in had to innovate with steel have been successfully were rebuilt in brick, such as bungalow re-build, Beechdale; tackling housing need and and concrete when bricks retained, like the refurbished the bungalows at Beechdale new housing in Radford. homelessness. were in short supply. The flats of Sneinton, Radford and (24). Most impressive were the contrast with the slums could Victoria Centre (20). Estate Action improvements 1. THE OLD PROBLEM not have been starker. By the made to high rise blocks at 1787–1914 5. LOW RISE 1930s, Narrow Marsh was Radford (25), which were 1970–1979
By the late eighteenth demolished and replaced with renamed The Woodlands. century, the old medieval spacious council housing (11). Problems with high rise Map Historical 7. TO BUILD AGAIN streets were struggling to necessitated a low rise 3. POST-WAR REBUILDING 2005–2019 contain a growing town. Fine approach during the 1970s. 1945–1959 middle class housing on High Demolition schemes turned Decades of minimal council Pavement (1) overlooked With the demand for to the post-1845 districts and house building had created the slum district of Narrow housing still great, the years neighbourhoods were re- an inadequate supply of Marsh. Here, overcrowding following the Second World planned following ‘Radburn’ new housing. Consequently, was rife, piped water was a War continued the trend principles – creating a government has slowly The trauma of the First shared resource and toilets for building large suburban clear distinction between reduced its restrictions on HOMES World War had highlighted were wooden buckets. Little estates, but with some pedestrians and traffic in a local authorities. In 2005 a chronic problem with survives from this period modern adjustments. The way that tried to replicate Nottingham City Homes was & PLACES housing in Britain. The except the caves, former Bilborough Estate (2,676 the closeness of community established as a management government pledged ‘Homes Loggerheads pub and a houses) was constructed associated with traditional organisation that took over for Heroes’, and the 1919 warehouse on Cliff Road (2). with a variety of techniques terraced houses. from the Council’s housing Housing & Town Planning Act More acceptable working to combat a short supply department. This allowed the Celebrating The challenge in St Ann’s enabled local authorities to class housing could be found of materials and labour: city to secure new funds. 100 Years of was impressive: demolish build council housing on an on Broad Street (3) or the steel ‘BISF’ houses (12) and Council Housing 10,000 houses, re-house Since then, tens of thousands unprecedented scale. suburbs of New Radford (4), pre-fabricted bunglows on 30,000 people and build of homes have been upgraded New Lenton, New Sneinton Wigman Road (13), concrete This guide shows how the 3,000 new homes in less than to the Decent Homes Historical Map and Hyson Green. panel houses on Cockington streets of Nottingham provide a decade. This wholesale Standard, and 500 new Road (14), and poured an excellent example of The 1845 Enclosure Act approach proved controversial council houses have been concrete Wimpey houses on Nottingham's this history, from slums that enabled the development of and parts of the estate, built. Many are on small sites Birchover Road (15). Council Houses originated in the eighteenth St Ann’s, the Arboretum and such as Robin Hood Chase such as Geraldine Close in century, to the pioneering the Meadows. Robin Hood At 6,828 houses, Clifton (21), were criticised as Bestwood (26), on the site of a estates of the 1920s and the Terrace and Campbell Grove Estate was the largest single regimented. Consequently, group of unused garages. But Decent Homes Standard of (5) provide the best example estate built by the city. The the redevelopment of the the largest schemes are those the present era. of working class housing built sheer scale was enhanced Meadows was conducted at Lenton (27) and Radford in the 1850s. Nearby, is one of by neighbourhood schools, a more gradually. It was here (28), both of which replaced Council housing in the earliest examples of hous- central thoroughfare (16) and in 1976, at Kirkewhite Court former high rise and deck Nottingham houses a fifth ing built by the local authority: north-south green route from (22), where the 50,000th access estates of the 1960s. of the city’s population and Victoria Buildings (6) was built Glapton Lane to Central Park Nottingham council house provides secure, good quality in 1878 though it would take (17). A green belt with playing was built. homes across the city. another forty years until the fields and allotments was Created on the occasion of the idea was re-considered. designed to preserve rural centenary of the 1919 Addison character. Act, a Nottingham City Homes project. Written and designed by Chris Matthews.
Images courtesy Picture Nottingham, Nottingham City Council, Nottingham City Homes, Chris Matthews and T. C. Howitt, A Review of the Progress of the Housing Schemes in Nottingham (1928).
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