Author name: Richard Clarke

Following Chamberlain’s Housing Act of 1923 (s.p.b.), Wheatley’s Act of the following year increased housing subsidies to local authorities to build working class housing which would rent at between £6 and £9 per week, the period for which the subsidy would be paid being increased to 40 years. Even though this was passed by the […]

The aim of the post-war National Government was to build 1 million new homes in three years, ‘homes fit for heroes’. In fact this particular ambition was not achieved but across the generation between the Wars over one million new houses were built in Britain. This was a huge increase in the country’s housing stock

The cleaning of the previous laptop led to further complications resulting in my now having bought a new laptop – hence the two-week delay. One misleading statement from my previous blog – the idea that East Yorkshire Council by building new cottages for some of its direct workforce would free-up these cottages for those in

(s.p.b.s) The political divide over the issue of house building from the public purse was exampled when the central government’s Local Government Board refused to accept the point made by Skirlaugh Rural District Council that ‘Scarcity will be appreciably relieved by the erection of cottages by private enterprise’. This prompted Skirlaugh R.D.C. to carry-out a

Rural district councils were slower to adopt building by-laws than their urban counterparts. However, most did employ full-time medical officers of health and inspectors of nuisance so that some comments on very poor housing might reach the ears of the elected through their annual or monthly reports. Furthermore, there were 24 sanitary inspectors employed in

The housing history of Holderness in the 20th century follows trends in rural areas that impacted in similar areas across the country. In 1900 rural workers housing was broadly of two types – estate cottages , that is cottages built at the expense of the principal landowner in a parish and in a style that