Includes balance sheets and accounts for gas companies.
XXXX excludes water
Offer of a council house at 248 Fifth Avenue, offered to Mr J E Freeman.
At present this series only contains one offer letter for a council house, dated 1927. Please see item-level descriptions for more detailed information.
Concerning adoption of roads on Council housing estates with respect to maintenance of verges
Correspondence concerning dampness in Council houses, with particular reference to Chaloner's Road
Correspondence concerning final costs and completion dates of houses
Correspondence concerning rent allowances under the National Assistance Act
Concerning street lighting on Corporation estates with details and estimate of costs for lighting on Moor Lane, Askham Lane and Chapel Fields Estates
Correspondence concerning acquisition and development of land in Percy Street and Bootham Row (includes plan)
Correspondence concerning steel distribution for 100 houses Moor Lane; 420 houses Moor Lane and Askham Lane ; 50 Flats Askham Lane; 50 flats Navigation Road; 88 houses, and further 24 houses Moor Lane.
Correspondence and extracts from minutes of Housing Committee concerning erection of 72 flats Askham Lane Estate
Correspondence concerning acquisition and development of land in Carr Grange and Poppleton Gate (includes plans)
Correspondence concerning acquisition and development of land in Danebury Drive, and plan of site.
Correspondence concerning land in Rawdon Avenue vested in Housing Committee for a period of 21 years with option to renew - Plan of St Nicholas Tip site, Melrosegate for proposed Tarmacadam Plant
Correspondence and associated papers concerning the constructions of a link road between Gale Lane and the Moor Lane Estate.
Correspondence and extracts from Housing Committee, concerning erection of 220 houses Moor Lane and 200 houses Askham Lane - List of Tenders and contract, 1951; Comparison of costs - Consent for loan and erection of 2 further houses Leeside, Moor Lane Estate, Jan 1953.
Particulars of pre-WWII housing schemes prepared by City Engineer, 1919-1938, and of post-WWII Housing Schemes, 1944-1946. Report of Housing Committee to Sep 1950. Plan of Corporation Housing Estates.
Correspondence con corning acquisition of land for housing in Curzon Terrace. 2 copies of map of Curzon Terrace
Correspondence and plans concerning the erection of flats in Queen Anne's Road
Correspondence concerning housing allocation for dollar export workers
Correspondence and extracts from minutes of Housing Committee concerning contracts with developer, for flats in Curzon Terrace; interior decoration of St Aeldred’s School; Branch Library Acomb; 62 houses Askham Lane East; Roads and drainage in Navigation Road; 4 houses Don Avenue and 30 Houses Moor Lane Estate - voluntary liquidation, Inventory of houses,1951 - Statements and final costs.
Correspondence and extracts from minutes of Housing Committee concerning erection of 5 houses, Amberley Street and 9 houses in Chatsworth Terrace (includes plan).
Correspondence concerning Chapel Fields Estate development, layout, roads and drains, along with extracts from minutes of Housing Committee, 1950 - 1958 - Notification to owners of sites, 1951 - List of Tenders and contracts - Notes on visit to Ministry of Housing & Local Government, Leeds, 1952 - 7 copies of plan of Chapel Fields Housing Development
Correspondence concerning erection of 2 blocks of maisonettes (Elderly Peoples' Dwellings) in Thorn Hook, Muncaster Estate
North Riding of Yorkshire: correspondence concerning the settingup of an Advisory Committee for Housing
Correspondence and extracts from minutes of Housing Committee and others concerning appropriation of land from Education to Housing Committee in Gale Lane. Includes plan
Correspondence with solicitors, extracts from minutes of Housing and Streets & Buildings Committees, Building & Planning Sub-Committee and plan, in connection with purchase by Corporation of sites 1,2 and 3 Leeman Road, Apr 1950-Jun1951.
Correspondence and minutes of Housing Committee meetings, 1950-1953 - Proposed erection of 18 houses in Carr Lane - Plans of Compulsory Purchase Orders, 1950 - Roads and drainage 1951 - Correspondence and extracts from minutes of Housing Committee concerning erection of 12 houses in Carr Lane, 1952-1953. Includes plans.
Correspondence concerning Municipal Aged Persons' Dwellings in Rowntree Avenue and St George's Place, 1964-1973 - Summary of information concerning aged persons' dwellings, 1971 - National Old People's Welfare Council, Gower Street, WC1: Role of Wardens in (Sheltered) Housing for Elderly (undated) - Notes on Warden Service 1972 - Draft copy 'Care of the Elderly and Handicapped', 1972 -Draft copy of 'Particulars & Duties of Wardens for Elderly Chronic Sick and Disabled', 1972 - List of private houses where old people known to live (undated)
Correspondence and extracts from minutes of Housing committee, 194952 - Erection of 4 houses on Thornfield Avenue, Muncaster Estate - Correspondence 1949-1950 – Erection of 88 houses in Moor Lane -Correspondence, extracts of minutes of Housing Committee, Oct 1950 - Mar 1952 -Contracts -Erection of 116 houses on Moor Lane Estate, Correspondence and extracts from minutes of Housing Committee and Progress Reports, Dec 1949 - Apr 1952 - Contracts with builders - Erection of 50 flats on Askham Lane (East) - Correspondence, and extracts of minutes of Housing Committee, 1951 - 1953 - Progress Reports of Joint Sub-Committee, 1951 - Copy of undated Agreements.
Correspondence concerning housing of agricultural workers, with particular reference to Moor Grange Farm, Dringhouses, Mar - Jul 1947
Correspondence concerning shops on housing estates, March 1949Aug 1955 - Report of Housing and Estates Manager relating to allocation of shops on housing estates, Dec 1948; Applications for a grocer's shop; a greengrocer and fruiter, a wet and fried fish and chips and a chemist's, (undated)
Financial and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 1946 (Ministry of Health circular 118/46) - Correspondence May 1946 - Sept 1951 - City Treasurer's Report to Housing Committee, 1946 - City Treasurer's observations on combined scheme of rent collections and welfare work, 1946 - Minutes of Housing (Financial) Sub-Committee, 1947 Increase in rents, Apr 1947 - Revision of house rents (undated) Rent rebates, 1947 - Muncaster Estate rent collections, 1949 Calculation of rents on housing under construction, Mar 1948 - Rateable values, 1948 - Proposed increase in house rents, Mar 1948
Correspondence concerning erection of 216 houses on Tang Hall Housing Estate, also plan and agreement 29 Apr 1946 - Report on Stage l of proposed central area traffic scheme, Mar1945 - Correspondence concerning sites for development, 1971 - Sites and property recommended for sale (undated) Rent & Housing Act, Procedure Chart (undated) and plans.
Correspondence concerning Inner Ring Road: Horsman Avenue-Apollo Street area, April 1948 - Sept 1949 and plan
Plans, Town Planning, Acomb; Proposed 2-Bedroom type houses; Link Avenue; Proposed premises for doctor; proposed community hall; lay-out for Gale Lane Housing Estate; provisional sites Carr Lane; proposed revision of allotment areas; section of Tadcaster Road, Dringhouses
Correspondence concerning provision of gates to Corporation Houses and extracts, from Minutes of Housing Committee, Jul 1949Jul 1950
Correspondence concerning vacant land off Viking Road, Carr Lane Estate, 1952-1954, and plan - Possible use as a School Playing Field, Mar 1954
Fire Hydrants on Housing Estates - Correspondence with York
Waterworks and National Fire Service, 1945-1949 - Plans for areas: Askham Lane (East Section), Muncaster and Rawcliffe Lane Estates
Building Trade Contracts - Correspondence March 1947 - Dec 1955 - General Conditions Contracts, 1946 – Proposed Modification to York Corporation & Terms of Contract (Undated) - Acceptance of Tenders, July 1847 (Specimen Form of Tender) – Bonds for Housing Contracts, July 1948 (Specimen Form of Bond) - Conditions of Contract for Building Work, May 1950 - Observations on the Proposals (on comparative costs) contained in a letter dated 9.3.51 from an Assurance Co. April 1951 - Building Contracts, Release of Retention Moneys etc. 1951/52 -Building Industry Distributors, Oct 1952 - Specimen Form of Articles of Agreement
Correspondence and
extracts from Minutes of Housing Committee, including – Ministry of Housing memo re: Permanent Housing Programmes, June 1945 - Ministry
of Works CLA.4 : Re-opening of Retail Shops, 1945 - Ministry of Health circulars NEH/1/46: Clearing & Approval of Housing Sites; NEH/6/47 Supplies of Bricks: List of Brickmakers; NEH/4/47: Housing Programme; NEH/14/47: Timber Licences, Cement Supplies; NEH/22/47: Non-Traditional Houses; NEH/2/48: Housing Materials, urgent requirements; NEH/3/48: Housing Loans; NEH/4/48 : Iron & Steel Distribution Scheme; NEH/5/48: Housing, Submission of Layouts; NEH/6/48: Permanent Housing, Final Accounts; NEH/10/48: Housing Contracts; NEH/11/48 Housing Licensing; NEH/1/49: House Tenders, Submission of Documents; NEH/2/49 : Procedure for Clearance, Acquisition & Development of Sites; NEH/4/49: Timber for Housing, Economy in use of Softwood; NEH/1/50 and 5/51: Housing Programmes, Electricity Services; NEH/4/51: Housing Programmes, Laying of Gas Mains; NEH/1/53: Notification of Sale or Lease of Council Housing; NEH/9/52: Non-Traditional Housing
Correspondence with Secretary of the National Federation of Old Age Pensioner Association, York concerning old peoples' dwellings and claim of unfair ruling on rents and other matters
Correspondence with War Department Ministry of Health and others, concerning military camps on Corporation land, 1941-49 - List of Camps, Aug 1945 - Camps required for housing: Fishergate-Paragon Road-Horsman Avenue, Kent Street and land at Melrosegate. - Ministry of Health circular 20/46: Conversion of Temporary Wartime Buildings to Housing use; claims for compensation for dilapidation under CD Act 1939 -Cemetery Road Housing Contract: Schedule of work on foundations, Feb 1947
Building Licensing, correspondence with Ministry of Health and others 1948-1955 - Building Materials, Housing Act 1945 -Ministry of Health circulars : 137/47, 108/48, 48/50, 57/50, 75/51, 21/52, 59/52, 70/52 and 24/54
Correspondence and extracts from minutes of Housing Committee, 1949-1955 - Private Street Works Act 1892, list of streets involved in York, Oct 1949 - List of Tenders, 1951 - Objections to charges by residents.
Correspondence and Tenders concerning a detached dwelling, Byland Avenue.
Correspondence concerning purchase of land adjoining Estate for house building - Deed of Option, for the purchase of land.
Correspondence and extracts from Minutes of Housing Committee concerning land adjoining 8 Holly Terrace, appropriated from Streets & Buildings to Housing Committee, 1925 - Erection of 4 flats and 4 2-storey maisonettes, 1949 - 1952 (includes plan) - Complaint by resident of nuisance.
Erection of 94 houses in Rawcliffe Lane on Water Lane Estate with roads and sewers and culverting of Beck with Direct Labour - Tenders, extracts from minutes of Housing Committee , and correspondence 1947- 1949.
Construction of permanent houses on Muncaster Estate; 4 residential shops; 7 bungalows and 7 old peoples' dwellings - Extracts from minutes of Housing Committee and correspondence, 1948-49.
Erection of houses on Muncaster Estate: 22 houses, 84 flats - Extracts from minutes of Housing Committee, 1948 and correspondence May 1948 - Feb 1950.
Construction of 100 Orlit Houses on Muncaster Estate, correspondence Dec 1947-Nov 1951 - Draft Articles of Agreement and Schedule of Conditions of Building Contract, 1948 - Report of meeting of a Deputation representing the Muncaster Estate Tenants Association and the Housing & Estates Manager, 1949 - Ministry of Health circulars 118/46 (Housing Act 1946) and 175/46 (Houses of Non-Traditional Construction) Orlit Houses, Brochure and 1947 Programme.
Construction of 50 houses on Muncaster Estate, correspondence Jan 1948-Jun 1949. Allocation of further 50 houses, correspondence Mar 1948 - Aug 1949, with erection of fencing on Water Lane site.
Construction of 16 dwellings in Alne Terrace, 8 houses and 2 blocks of 3 storey maisonettes, correspondence Nov 1948-Oct 1958. Dispute as to liquidated damage - report of City Architect, 16 Dec 1959. Correspondence concerning lack of progress and subsequent imposition of liquidated and ascertained damage, Jun1950-Jan 1959, and concerning delay in final settlement of account, Sept 1953-Jan 1965.
Askham Lane Estate, construction of roads, correspondence May 1950 - Feb 1952 - Askham Lane Estate, construction of footpaths and verges, correspondence 1953-1955.
Construction of roads and sewers in Askham Lane East - Correspondence and Plan - Claim for surface damage.
Askham Lane Estate, erection of 220 permanent houses, roads and Sewers (and 2 houses in Tennent Road) - Extracts from minutes of Housing Committee, tenders and correspondence with Ministry of Health, Leeds, construction firm and others, 1949-1953 - Moor Lane Estate, specification of electrical installation for lighting and power points for 116 corporation houses, 1950 - Construction of 164 dwellings, houses and flats, 1948-1951 - Construction of 62 houses in Gale Lane Oct 1948 - Jul 1950.
Ministry of Health circular No.2766 : War-Time Emergency Programme (1942) - Proposed Accommodation in York: 2 cottages in Skelton and 2 in Flaxton; Summary of costs, 2 July 1943; Conversion of farm cottage, Bad Bargain Lane, into 2 houses with plan, Nov 1942-Jan 1943
Correspondence concerning Permanent Housing Contracts Nos.l & 2, Askham Lane Housing Estates, roads and drains.