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General correspondence 4
Y/SOC/4/2/29/4 · File · Mar 1946 - Dec 1947
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Subscription for membership of the National Housing & Town Planning Council, 1946/47 - Dustbins - Possession of properties , 1947 - Compensation following accident in Rougier Street - Gas & Electricity Services in Corporation Housing Charity Commission: query concerning Friends' 'Retreat' - Access to premises in Kitchener Street - Report on Building Licences - National Federation for Housing and Town Planning : Programme for Conference, Paris, June 1947 - Housing Committee: Municipal Houses, Increase in Rents, and details for Tang Hall, Burton Lane, Water Lane Estates and various houses and flats - Housing & Planning News Bulletin, June/July 1947- Query regarding Wilberforce Avenue - Visit of Deputation from Borough of Luton Housing committee to York - Northern Housing Council circular letter and Agenda for AGM - Treasurer's Report 1946/47 - List of number of applicants on waiting list - Housing Progress Reports, 18 May to 15 Dec 1947 - Tenancy of 12 Garths End, Fulford - Caretaker's House, Mill Mount School, - Maintenance of Typewriters -Survey of prefabricated houses - Request for accommodation in York - Plan of proposed water supply to Clifton Lawn Tennis Club - Request regarding 'Clifton Field' - List of applicants for flats, Aug 1947 -The Housing Centre Haymarket, 10th Report, 1946/47, and Housing Centre Bulletin No.114, Jun 1947 - Comparative Housing Activity Report, June - August 1947 - Housing in Military Occupation: 41 and 43 Water End; 1 Melbourne Street and 1 Melbourne Villas, Sep 1947 - Application for grant for Examination Award, Sept/Oct 1947 - Programme of National Housing and Town Planning Council's Conference, Harrogate, Nov 28 - Dec 1947 - Report on Flats Survey, 20 Oct 1947 - Appointment of permanent housing Welfare Officer for York, 20 Oct 1947 - Middlethorpe Lodge, Dringhouses, taken on a seven year lease by the War Department- Query with regard to sale of 68 Hanover Street -County Borough of Hastings Housing Department Questionnaire - Classification of housing applicants - Request for accommodation.

General correspondence 3
Y/SOC/4/2/29/3 · File · Oct 1946 - Feb 1947
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Housing Committee 'Finish Houses Campaign' - Housing Progress Report - Housing & Planning News Bulletin Dec 1946 /Jan 1947 - Demolition of Bainbridges' Buildings, Price Street, 1939-40, (and plan, 1946) - Reports on Building Licences - City Treasurer's Monthly Report to Housing Committee - Simon Report: Thermal Insulation of Dwellings, 1946 - Association of Municipal Corporations circular: Housing Contracts, Increase in National Health Insurance & Pension contributions, 3 Dec 1946 - Housing and Planning News Bulletin, Feb/March 1947 - Details of Houses subject to Demolition Orders, Closing Orders and Undertakings not to re-let for human habitation, 1947 - Housing (Financial) Sub-Committee meeting, Recommendations - Claim by for compensation - City of York 'Point Scheme' in allocation of housing, (undated) - Application for shop premises in York, Jan 1947 - Ministry of Health premises - Request for possible acquisition of land situated in Nunthorpe Road (with plan), St Clément's Parochial Church Council, Feb 1947 - Direct Labour: Memo for Local Authorities, 1947 - Request and complaint regarding accommodation - City Treasurer: procedure in the collection of rent arrears - Draft minutes of Housing (Rents & Tenants) Sub-Committee - Request for possession of property (Acomb) following rebuilding after War Damage, Feb 1947 - Application for accommodation in York, and press cutting, Feb 1947

General correspondence 2
Y/SOC/4/2/29/2 · File · Jan - Oct 1946
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County Borough of Walsall, Housing Department salaries - Inadequately housed persons - Yorkshire Regional Joint Committee Building Industry : Hours of Labour,- Housing & Estates Department circular letter concerning repairs and maintenance of properties - Multi-Storey Flats, Women's Advisory Committee on Solid Fuel circular letter : 'Aims & Objectives' Apr 1946 - Reports on Building Licences - Details of Annual Conference of Institute of Housing, 1946 - Report of Sir John Wrigley's visit to York, Jun 1946 - Requisitioned Houses re-let - Housing and Planning, News Bulletin No.42, Aug/Sept 1946 - Application by a Trade Union for a special rate of pay for tree-lopping, Aug 1946 - Query regarding advances under small dwellings acquisition Acts - Housing & Estates Department circular letter concerning Report on 'points' scheme - Housing & Planning News Bulletin, Oct/Nov 1946 - Housing Progress Report, Sept 1946 -Charges for gas cookers in new houses -City of York: questionnaire concerning Housing Officer - Yorkshire Regional joint Council for the Building Industry : Gradings of Districts and Current Rate of Wages

General correspondence 1
Y/SOC/4/2/29/1 · File · Mar 1944-Dec 1945
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Association of Municipal Corporations : Notes on Association's meeting with Minister of Health- Press cutting from 'The Times', regarding Building Prices - National Council of Social Services, Bedford Square, WC1: List of Regional Officers (undated) - Rent Rebate Scheme and Revision of Income and Rent Rebate - Ministry of Health: War Damage with regard to Nos.12 & 13 Garths End, Fulford, and circular 163/4 : Release of Staff - Purchase of land adjoining Cattle Market Inn, Paragon Street, Sep 1945 - WVS Donation of blankets for needy - Report of Housing Committee delegates to Association of Municipal Corporations' Conference, London, Oct 1945 - Yorkshire Federation of Building Trades Employers Day Work List and Labour Charge as from 1 Oct 1945 - Fuel for Furnished Rooms, Dec 1945 - York Cooperation Society Ltd's application for land on Water Lane for a new branch, 20 Dec 1945

Permanent Housing
Y/SOC/4/2/28 · File · Apr 1945- Feb 1946
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Various papers and correspondence including: Ministry of Health circular 66/45 -Proposed permanent housing on Carr Lane estate - Notices to Quit to allotment holders - Land at Carr Lane, Acomb, and Water Lane, Clifton, proposed 100 permanent Houses - Valuation of market produce and tenant rights Meeting of Allotment Holders, Carr Lane, Sep 1945 – Ministry of Health circular 6/45: Permanent Houses - Sites and numbers of proposed houses ready for tender on Navigation Road; Gale Lane Estate; Carr Lane; Woodlea Avenue; Beckfield Lane; Kingsway North; Water Lane Estate; (May 1945) - Ministry of Health circular 183/45: Cost of premises requisitioned or taken for housing purposes; 184/4: Permanent Prefabricated Houses - Plans (May 1945) – Statutory rules and orders 1945, Nos.1361 and 1451-2: Emergency Powers (Defence) General Regulations, Orders in Council amending the Defence General Regulations 1939 - Ministry of Health circulars 192/45 Restrictions on Conversion of Housing to non-Residential purposes; 200/45 Permanent Housing Programme; 201/45: Emergency Housing Accommodation (with enclosure referring to oil cooking stoves) - Housing Land/School Sites in Beckfield Lane, Jan 1946 - Report of visit to site of prefabricated permanent houses, Howard Type, at Woolwich, Jan 1946 - Press cutting (undated) concerning increase in housing subsidies

Changes in stock dwellings
Y/SOC/4/2/27 · File · 1961-1973
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Changes in stock of dwellings other than those reported on Monthly Progress Reports, Apr 1961-Dec 1973 - Ministry of Housing & Local Government memo concerning completion of Form P14 - Monthly Progress Reports, May 1961-Feb 1974

Housing Progress Records
Y/SOC/4/2/26 · File · Dec 1945-Dec 1950
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Ministry of Health's Housing Census as at 31 Dec 1945 - Progress Reports (Building Schemes etc.) Jan 1946 - Nov 1950

Houses in Heslington Lane
Y/SOC/4/2/25 · File · 1946-1947
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Correspondence concerning the building of eight houses - Proposed purchase of land in Nevinson Grove; draft specification and bill of quantities (includes plan).

Y/SOC/4/2/24 · File · Jan-Apr 1947
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Correspondence with Ministry of Town & Country Planning / Ministry of Health, concerning appropriation of land for Old Peoples' Dwellings and reading /recreation Room (includes plans)

Danebury Drive
Y/SOC/4/2/23 · File · Jan 1946-Sep 1946
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Correspondence regarding land required for proposed housing (includes a plan).

Y/SOC/4/2/2 · File · 1940-1953
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Correspondence with York Waterworks Co - Leakages/Repairs to mains at 287 Burton Stone Road [1940] - Water mains at rear of municipal housing adjacent to privately owned properties,1944 - List of Corporation Housing supplied from private water mains (undated) New housing estates, 1953

Y/SOC/4/2/16 · File · Aug 1946-May 1947
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Concerning erection of four houses. Correspondence (general) – Tender – Ministry of Health circular letter concerning Amendments to Buildings, Sep 1946 Basic Rates for labour and materials as used in Quantities - Reduction in estimate proposed by Tender – Allotments at junction of Bad Bargain Lane/Tang Hall Lane, required for building.

Y/SOC/4/2/14 · File · 1944-1945
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North Eastern Railway (NER) Circular 224 Correspondence May 1944 - Aug 1945 - Memorandum of Procedure (enclosure to NER circulars 224 and 225) - Specification No.l Concrete roads using manual methods of compacting concrete; Specification No.2 Concrete roads using mechanical methods of compacting concrete (May 1944) - Bills of Quantity for roads and sewers (May 1944) - Programme and Progress Charts (undated) - Regional Circular NER 233 ; Advance Preparation of Housing Sites, May 1944 - 'Works in Connection with the Preparation of Housing Sites'; General Conditions of Contract' (Hansard, April 1944) - Notice to Tenders, and Form of Tender (Apr 1944) NE. circular 247, Sept 1944 - Specimen Form of Deed of Agreement (HS1) - Home Office circular letter concerning employment of German Prisoners of War [POWs] on works of civil engineering, Aug 1945 - North Eastern locations of POW Camps, Jul 1945 - Application and General Conditions of Employment of German POWs, MOW/POW/CE2, July/Aug 1945 Plans for Carr Lane Site, Acomb, and map of Sites for Schools in York, 1944, and Plans for housing in York, 1945

General Correspondence
Y/SOC/4/2/119 · File · 1960-1961
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Includes invitations to openings; Institute of Housing booklet 'Training to be a Housing Manager'; and conference papers.

General correspondence
Y/SOC/4/2/116 · File · Jun 1956-Dec 1959
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Comprises correspondence on general housing matters including: number of applicants; housing of old people; rents; electricity supply; clearance and redevelopment; complaints and relocations; opening of estates, circulars; tenancies and other issues.

Y/SOC/4/2/114 · File · May 1951-Sep 1956
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Correspondence and extracts of minutes of Housing Committee concerning: acquisition and development of land in Carr Lane and construction of roads and sewers; assessment and development charges on land at North Lane, Dringhouses; proposed erection of 10 houses and purchase of sites for housing purposes and development charges

Y/SOC/4/2/112 · File · Feb 1957-July 1958
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Correspondence and extracts from minutes of Housing Committee concerning construction of roadworks at junction of Kingsway West/Gale Lane, Feb - Aug 1957; erection of 9 dwellings Kingsway West and Gale Lane, 2 dwellings Cornlands Road and 6 dwellings Tennent Road by F Shepherd & Son Ltd, May 1955 - July 1958

War Damage Repairs
Y/SOC/4/2/11 · File · 1943-46
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Ministry of Health circular No.2875 and Schedule for Plasterers' Work, Sep 1945 - Correspondence concerning Prosecutions for false claims Jan 1943-Oct 1943; Fraudulent claims in War Damage accounts, Jun 1943-Sep 1944; Alleged fraud in War Damage contracts, Aug 1943-Dec 1943; , Overcharging in contract for War Damage, Nov 1943-May 1945; forgery case Mar-Jun 1944; Incorrect claims for employees Apr 1943- Sep 1943; Incorrect claim in wages for War Damage repairs, Jan 1944-2May 1945 - Ministry of Health circular 151/46: War Damage Repairs, Request to Local Authorities to assist in expeditious considerations of claims in certain cases, Jul 1946

Y/SOC/4/2/102 · File · Dec 1952- Mar 1957
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Extracts from minutes of Housing Committee concerning construction of roadworks in Don Avenue extension - Technical Report and erection of 38 houses Don Avenue extension, also dispute over contract regarding cost of demolition of Dringhouses Sewage Works.

Y/SOC/4/2/1 · File · 1944-1945
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Correspondence with Ministry of Health - Licences to build - Ministry of Health circular 61/44 : Factory Made Houses - Experimental Housing by Local Authorities - Notes on meeting of Alderman and City Engineer at Ministry of Health, Whitehall, 1944 - Northern Housing Council, Gateshead , circular letter concerning Demonstration Houses.

General correspondence
Y/SOC/1/2/7 · File · 1929-1934
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General correspondence and associated papers regarding the transfer of staff and property to York Council from the York Poor Law Union under the Local Government Act, 1929.

Staffing and salaries
Y/SOC/1/2/5 · File · 1931-1932
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Papers concerning staffing structure and conditions within the new Public Assistance Committee. Includes lists of staff.

Administrative scheme
Y/SOC/1/2/4 · File · 1929-1932
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Correspondence and papers regarding the new administrative scheme under the Local Government Act, 1929.