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Reference NumberP/BSL/A/2/4/82
LevelFile
Title[Leader's Miscellaneous Papers]
Date(s)1978-1979
DescriptionLoose papers comprising Leader's correspondence, and including a range of local issues -

Press Notices (Operation Clean-Up; Inner Urban Areas Act 1978) via Department of the Environment;
Note concerning Key Facts in Inner City Policy (1976-1978);
Meeting(s) of Tower Hamlets Council, and Tower Hamlets Labour Group, including meeting on the transfer of Greater London Housing to the Boroughs, and Saturday Seminar;
National Conference on Local Government and Tourism (December 1978, Programme);
Oxford House (Application for Loan);
Greater London Council and Tower Hamlets Borough Council: Greater London Employers' Secretariat: Salary Consultation;
University House (Development Committee, June 1978).

Docklands Northern Relief Route -
Discussion of Proposals;
'Docklands Northern Relief Road Through Limehouse' (Report of Director of Development);
'Docklands Northern Relief Road. Three Alternatives Through Limehouse' (Greater London Council 1978);
Summary of Public Consultation Exercise;
Correspondence between Limehouse and Ratcliff Road Action Group and Councillor Riley.

Tower Hamlets Arts Committee including -
Four Corners Films, Whitechapel Women's Centre and the Half Moon Theatre;
Correspondence with North London Branch of Equity;
Arts and Entertainment Budget;
'Camerawork: Photography in the Community', magazine number 13, Half Moon Photography Workshop;
Agenda(s) and Minutes for meeting(s) of Tower Hamlets Arts Committee, including Annual General Meeting 1978;
Application for a Bursary from a named male individual; Cable Street Mural Project;
Role and Financing of Greater London Arts Association (London Boroughs' Association Members' Brief), and including Approach to London Boroughs and Grants to Voluntary (arts) Organisationss;
Tower Hamlets Arts Project (Grant Application).

Committee Decentralisation of Housing from the Greater London Council to the Boroughs (Roland Freeman); Tower Hamlets Youth and Community Project/Tower Hamlets Law Centre; Premier Press: Options following the ending of the lease on 31 December 1977;

Housing Issues, including -

Decoration of staircases in maisonettes and houses, and problem families (Policy Committee and Report of Working Party on Housing Study);
St. Hilda's East (Homeless Families);
Homeless Families Placed in Hotels in Kings Cross (Correspondence from Jack Wolkind and others);
Communication to George Tremlett (Leader, Housing Policy Committee, County Hall, Greater London Council);
Improvement of Multi-Story Blocks;Naming of Sheltered Housing Buildings (Social Services Committee);
Homeless Families (Director of Community Services), with correspondence between Housing Emergency Services and the Home Office;
Dwellings available for letting and void properties;

Other local issues, covering -

Urban Programme Phase 18 (Policy Committee);
Community Rights Course (Tower Hamlets Law Centre and others);
Bethnal Green Intermediate Education Centre;
Wapping Progress Meeting (Directorate of Development);
Spitalfields Project Steering Committee;
Social Workers' Strike;
'An Outline Of The Types of Topics Which Could be Reserved for Consideration by the Joint Committee' (Paper by the Chairman of the Docklands Joint Committee Local Festivals Working Party;
Proposed closure of Robert Montefiore School, including brief for deputation to the Secretary of State for Education and Science;
Inner Urban Areas: Meeting of Partnership Authorities
Surrey Docks;
Kingsthorpe Children's Home;
East London Health Project, and Future use of Bethnal Green Hospital; Correspondence from Monteith Tenants' Association, Reverend John Barratt, St. Pauls with St. Stephen's, Ranwell Senior Citizens' Club and others, in support of neighbourhood facilities;
London Lotteries;
Transport on Water Association Council meeting (held at the House of Commons);
Annual General Meeting: Victoria County History, Middlesex;
Special Salary Arrangements for Social Workers (Greater London Employers' Secretariat);
Albany Works Training Workshop Project;
Meeting with Peter Shore, MP on Greater London Council General Powers Bill;
Proposed Tesco in Bromley-by-Bow;
Tower Hamlets Old People's Clubs Committee;
Poplar Vapour Baths;
York Hall - Lettings;
Preliminary Report on Provision of Training Workshop in Tower Hamlets; Docklands Development Application Sub-Committee;
Tower Hamlets Joint Community Action Group and Tower Hamlets Council (Representatives' meeting);
National Joint Council for Local Authorities' Services (Manual Workers): Circular Number. MN 222, January 1978, including details of National Wage Claim Settlement;
Site bounded by Lindfield Street and Upper North Street;
Tower Hamlets Centre for Small Business.

Includes curriculum vitae of named architects.
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