| Description | Papers/Correspondence including Transportation Programmes: Short Term Achievements (Programme Schedule and report by GLC Director of Planning); Bow Street Fire Station; GLC (General Powers) Bill 1975-1976: Clause IV - Direct labour Organisations' Extension of Powers; Development on Devons Road/Bow Road Site (Illtyd Harrington, GLC, to PB, 11th March, 1976); GLC Annual Budget Diagrams 1976-1977, and Budget Speech; Short Term Transportation Programme, including Docklands Development, J.Daly, Chair of Transport Committee, GLC, to PB, 18th May, 1976); Sunday Opening (Illtyd Harrington to Peter Drew, 23rd June, 1976); Grievances with the GLC (G. Simons to PB, 20th October, 1976); Council & Staff (Officers) Joint Sub-Committee - Estate Management, including Proposed Career Grade fot Estates Officers; Strategic Housing Plan: Borough Consultations at Member Level; Brownfield Estate (C.H.Fellows to PB, 19th November, 1976).
Also Brunswick Road Old Fire Station: Question re use of building as hostel for mentally ill,and correspondence including J. Wolkind, Chief Executive, LBTH to Director General of the GLC (30th November, 1976) and Alderman Mr O'Connor, Chair GLC Single Homeless Sub-committee to PB, 2nd December, 1976 - the station had been let to a Sister Bernadine as a hostel without prior consultation. Includes grievances with GLC with named housing case histories and specific cases mentioned concerning documentary 'Goodbye, Longfellow Road'; City Corporation: Abolition (Report via General Purposes Committee); London Docks: Stage 1; Management of Public Housing in LBTH; Proposed Docklands Northern Relief Route, including Report of Director of Development; Hostel for Mentally Ill: Stepney Green/Whitehorse Lane. Possible premises in Stepney Green and Rectory Lane.
Includes mention of Bengali squatters in Pelham Buildings; and Miss Darby as party in application to buy 1-2 Watts Street Buildings and 48 Wapping Lane (by Wapping Community Association) and rehabilitate the site for local accommodation. |