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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.

Correspondence concerning proposed housing site Askham Lane, Acomb, (110 houses) - Ministry of Health circular NEH/5/48

Scheme for Training Apprentices- Correspondence - Employed in building houses - Apprentice Master Scheme- Correspondence 1951 - 1952, 12 houses Gale Lane/Cornlands Road - Programme for 'Handing Over Ceremony of Last Four Houses', 1952 - 'Training the Apprentice Builder - Notes for Guidance', 1948 - Specimen Agreement Form MH/PC/1, 1945.

Request to purchase land adjoining Horseman Ave in order to extend business

Correspondence concerning Bellfarm Social Hall as regards Licences for music, dancing and other activities.

Housing Progress reports including drains and sewers

General correspondence concerning accommodation for residents, and house planning and building.

Complaint concerning damage to property by fallen tree

Correspondence concerning proposed site for Booster Station on land adjoining Askham Lane Estate, and Plan

Application for land for Dringhouses Community Centre and Plan, Sep-Mar 1946 - Claim for compensation for torn clothing, 1951 - Claim that allotment is being used as right of way, 1946 (List of allotment tenants) - Correspondence concerning type of appliances supplied to corporation housing, 1947 - Correspondence concerning future site of Hewley's Hospital, St Saviourgate, York, 1947 - Correspondence concerning Council's share of cost of maintaining roads/private streets, Muncaster Estate, 1953 - Correspondence concerning rent increases, 1948 - Claims for compensation 1949 - Correspondence concerning construction of service roads on Carr Estate, 1949 - Correspondence concerning a rented site on Carr Estate for temporary church, 1948 - Correspondence concerning proposed Social Hall in Bur Dyke Avenue for Clifton Ward Labour Association, 1948 - 1951 -Correspondence concerning Council decision not to proceed with 'On ¬Site' housing on Moor Lane Estate, 1950 - Correspondence concerning unsatisfactory progress in erection of 6 lock-up garages at Crichton Avenue, 1950-1951 - Correspondence concerning proposed re-zoning of land adjoining Bur Dyke for housing purposes, 1949-1950 - Correspondence concerning extension of hearths in houses on Carr Estate to accommodate Yorkray Stove, 1950 - Correspondence concerning possibility of releasing housing occupied by War Dept., March-May 1950 - Correspondence concerning clearance of weeds etc. on Gale Lane School Site, Aug-Oct 1950 - Correspondence concerning alleged forgery of rent cards and possibility of making a charge for replacement, 1949-1950

Correspondence concerning complaint with regard to waste land Burton Stone Lane

Correspondence with Ministry of Health, Leeds concerning erection of residential shops on Carr Estate.

Correspondence with Ministry of Health, Leeds, concerning construction of 24 Old Peoples' Dwellings on Carr Estate - Tenders accepted for 24 Dwellings - Consent for loans.

Correspondence Feb 1945 - Jun 1949 - Report of visit to Site of Pre-Fabricated Permanent Houses (Howard Type) at Woolwich - 50 Howard Type houses to be built Carr Grange Estate, 8 Kingsway North Estate, - Consent to loan for 40 Howard Type houses - Claim for damage done to kerb on Carr Estate; settled out of court.

Correspondence February 1946 - December 1947 - 140 houses, Acomb Hall Estate; 6, Lindsay Avenue - Tender accepted - Consent to loan for 146 houses - Contract Guarantee, 1946.

Correspondence concerning 190 houses, Beckfield Lane - List of Tenders and consent to loan

Comprises correspondence on the following: British Iron and Steel Federation [BISF]Houses to be erected on Carr Lane Estate by Birch & Sons Ltd -Schedule of Prices (Alternatives) No.l and Supplement: Basic Paint Prices, 1946 - 1947 - Consent to loans - Articles of Agreement for construction of 208 houses (superceded) - BISF, specification for supplies of structured steel framework, materials and fabrication, house Type A.1 - B.I.S.F. House Type A.1, schedule for prices for external work and variations in foundations; variation to schedule - Report on Conference regarding B.I.S.F. Houses.

Ministry circular 14/44 and Ministry of Town and Country Planning War Agricultural Executive Committee; Allotments at Sites included: Acomb Hall Estate and Chapelfields, Ministry of Health: Note on proposals - Minutes of Housing Conference, Oxford, Conference of Representatives of Local Authorities, Guildhall, York - Statement issued by National Federation of Building Trade Employers with regard to Advanced Preparation of Building Sites (undated) Report on Meeting of Group Technical Sub-Committee, York Guildhall, York Group (York, Harrogate, Castleford and Tadcaster): Specifications for Concrete Roads, June 1944 - Ministry of Health, Post-War Programme 1944 - Precis of Housing Act 1936; Housing Act (Forms) Regulations 1937; Housing (Temporary Provision) Act 1944; Housing Act (Form of Orders & Notices) Amendment Regulations 1944 and circular 169/44: Carr Lane Compulsory Order and Schedule 1944- Notes on Interview with Ministry of Health, Leeds, 1944 - Correspondence with regard to land at Acomb, 20.2.45- Consent to Loan of £15,000 for purchase of land for housing,
of Health circular 7 - Acomb, Town and Country, 1945 - Draft Contract for land at Acomb, 1945 - Home Office circular letter concerning National Fire Service 3/1945 with regard to expenditure incurred by Local Authorities under Section 3 of Fire Brigade Act 1938- 71 acres of land at Acomb, Jun 1945 - Query concerning Cottage Garden Allotments, Carr Lane, Acomb, 1945 - Ministry of Health circular 36/46 : Use of German POWs and Memo 290 (Housing), and circular letter concerning Slabbing for temporary housing, Nov 1945

Technical Note on some types of permanent prefabricated houses - Claim for compensation for disturbance of tenancy, 1945 - Damage to permanent housing at Kingsway West 1946 - Housing: Cooking F -Complaint regarding allotment at Carr Lane -Application to open a fried fish shop and fishmongers on new Carr Lane Estate - List of Contractors, and State of progress in construction of 100 permanent houses - Northern Housing Council: Post-War Housing Programme, and supplies of materials - Claim and complaints - Permanent Housing Programme (completed or in course of construction) - Complaint regarding roof on Bishopthorpe Rd - Complaint regarding unsatisfactory repairs - General correspondence concerning permanent housing - Description of plans approved for work in Front Street, Acomb - Query concerning dangerous balconies in Woodlea Avenue - Requests for houses - City Treasurer: Consents to borrow and salaries of permanent staff, Jan 1947 - Ministry of Health: Housing Loans Housing Programme - Housing Programme in York - Stephenson & Son, Auctioneers & Valuers, Valuation of Tenant Right on land in Beckfield Lane, and Carr Lane - Statutory Rules and Orders 1947 NO.379: Housing Act (Equalization Account) Regulations 1947 - Estimated date of completion of 50 Howard Houses, Dec 1946¬April 1947 - Ministry of Health circular 36/47: Traditional House Building Costs, Returns of final costs to be made by Local Authorities, Applications for requisitioned house, on building Licences, August 1945 - Outstanding, Apr 1946 – Oct 1946 - Loans (undated) - Housing Loan - Housing Committee 26 Hobgate - Report March 1947 - Loan Sanctions York County Borough Schedule of Sanction - Press cutting ‘The Times’, Effect of shortages and bad weather on building programmes - Ministry of Health circular letter concerning Aluminium Houses, - Fencing to permanent houses - Housing and Estates Department: Shops on Housing Estates - Ministry of Health circular N.E.H.21/47 Erection of Houses, Use of Alternative Materials - Association of Municipal Corporations circular letter, Licensing of Building Work, and Housing, Direct Labour - Correspondence concerning offer to Corporation of property - Ministry of Health circular No.624 Specification for roads in housing and industrial estates, and circular letter concerning Girdwood Committee on house building costs - General details of Cochrane Street flats (undated) - Ministry of Health circular letter concerning Tenderers' Submission of Relative Documents, 1949

Factory made houses, Hob Moor Fields - Correspondence concerning land at Hob Moor, (with plans), Dec 1944 - Feb 1947 - Correspondence with regard to temporary housing at Kingsway West and Gale Lane - Consent to loan for purchase of 13 acres of land at Hob Moor (undated)

Correspondence concerning: National Fire Service; 'Finish the Houses' Campaign; Land adjoining Tang Hall Beck; Analysis of House building costs; Opening of 600th House; Fencing of American bungalows; Motion with regard to Housing Programme; Review of Local Authority Waiting Lists.