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Chester le Street Rural District Council

Reference: RD/CS Catalogue Title: Chester le Street Rural District Council Area: Catalogue Category: Local Authority Records Description: Housing

Covering Dates: 1894-1974

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Housing (Ref: RD/CS )

Also see RD/CS 516, 523 for 'Orders Under Housing Act' relating to public health

Assessment of housing (Ref: RD/CS (1) 237-238, 356, 557, 696)

Register of houses provided, 1935
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Register of houses in clearance areas, 1935
(1 volume, leather half-bound)


Returns to Local Government Board under the Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890, 1894 - 1914
(1 file)


Copy of Ministry of Health Model Byelaws series IV - Buildings, 1937
(1 booklet)


Pre-war council housing, organised by geographic area and housing scheme, Birtley, Elisabethville, Barley Mow, Fatfield, Lumley, Bournmoor, Edmondsley, Eighton Banks, Team Colliery, Kibblesworth, Ouston, Urpeth, Pelton, Perkinsville, Sacriston, Nettlesworth, September 1949
(1 volume)

Building of housing (Ref: RD/CS (2))Edmondsley Housing Scheme (Ref: RD/CS 276)

Edmondsley Housing Scheme contract, 1924 - 1925
(1 file)

Street naming and numbering (Ref: RD/CS 551)

File of Chester-le-Street R.D.C. plans for proposed changing of street names and numbers at Grange Villa, Portobello, Pelton, Sacriston and Birtley, n.d.
(1 file)

Tenants' handbooks (Ref: RD/CS 643/1-3)

Handbook for tenants of Chester le Street Rural District Council's estates, c.1964
(1 booklet)


Handbook for tenants of Chester le Street Rural District Council's municipal housing estates, February 1952
(1 booklet)


Handbook for tenants of Chester le Street Rural District Council's estates, 1959
(1 booklet)

Houses at Ouston, Team Colliery and Urpeth (Ref: RD/CS 662-669)

28 July 1936 (1) John E. Gardner of St. Cuthbert's Road Joinery Works, Gateshead (2) Chester-le-Street Rural District Council Contract to build 48 houses at Ouston, at a cost of £16,414 19s. Includes: proposed layout plan and specifications, 15 January 1936
(2 files)


Indemnity by J.E. Gardner and the Local Government Guarantee Society Limited, for contract to build 48 houses at Ouston, 29 June 1936
(1 paper)


28 July 1936 (1) J.E. Gardner of St. Cuthbert's Road Joinery Works, Gateshead (2) Chester-le-Street Rural District Council Contract to build 22 houses at Team Colliery, at a cost of £8127 10s. 6d. Includes: proposed layout plans and specifications, 15 May 1935
(1 file)


Indemnity by J.E. Gardner and the Local Government Guarantee Society Limited, for contract to build 22 houses at Team Colliery, 29 June 1936
(1 paper)


8 June 1937 (1) J.E. Gardner of St. Cuthbert's Road Joinery Works, Gateshead (2) Chester-le-Street Rural District Council Contract to build 49 houses at Urpeth, at a cost of £18,451 Includes: specifications, 6 November 1936
(1 file)


Indemnity by J.E. Gardner Limited and the Local Government Guarantee Society Limited, for contract to build 49 houses at Urpeth, 12 March 1937
(1 paper)


Correspondence between the Local Government Guarantee Society Limited and Chester-le-Street Rural District Council, concerning the maintenance contracts for houses at Ouston and Urpeth, built by J.E. Gardner Limited, 18 November - 22 December 1937
(3 papers)


Plans of proposed addition of bathroom to house at Sacriston and addition to stables 1931; and plans of Sunniside scheme, n.d., 1970s
(1 bundle)

Registers of new properties (Ref: RD/CS 697-700)

Register of new dwellings provided with financial assistance by the Chester le Street Rural District Council, 'no.2', 1946 Housing Act, includes type and date of completion of each dwelling, 1953-1956
(1 volume)


Register of new dwellings provided for general needs of area by local authority of housing association, 1936-1956 Housing Acts, includes type and date of completion of each dwelling, land for sum clearance, and displacement register, 1956-1973
(1 file)


Register of new dwellings Housing Subsidies Act 1967, for general needs by Chester le Street Rural District Council, register of new dwellings provided for slum and camp clearance
(1 volume)


Register of new dwellings provided and approved for the purposes of Part 1 Housing Subsidies Act 1967 24 February 1967-12 March 1974; register of new dwellings for general approved needs Housing act 1961, 29 June 1962-4 September 1970
(1 file)

Architects' reports (Ref: RD/CS 702)

Copy of architect's report and breakdown of costs by F Bowman to the Rural District Council, for proposed access road to Birtley housing site at Mount Pleasant, c.1955 Originally enclosed in RD/CS 704
(2 papers)

Certificates of completion (Ref: RD/CS 239a, 240, 701)

Certificates of completion of houses, 1931 - 1934
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Certificates of completion of houses, 1934 - 1935
(1 volume, cloth bound)


Sample of certificates of completion relating to the revitalisation of 144 properties at South Pelaw by Pendleton Builders, certificates provided and signed by Ronald F Hall and Associates, originally enclosed in RD/CS 697, 19 December 1972-29 November 1974
(4 papers)

Demolition of housing (Ref: RD/CS (3) 539, 541)

Demolition orders and related correspondence re Housing Acts 1936, 1938 - 1941
(1 file)


Orders for demolition issued under the Housing Acts 1936, 1939 - 1947
(1 file)

Housing correspondence (Ref: RD/CS (4) 357, 421-434, 495, 505, 524, 531, 703)

File of correspondence re Housing of the Working Classes Act 1909, concerning the parish of Washington, 17 September 1913 - 5 October 1920
(1 file)


Correspondence concerning housing at Usworth, 1909 - 1919
(1 file)


Correspondence concerning housing at Pelton, 1910 - 1912
(1 file)


Correspondence concerning housing at Harraton, 1913 - 1919
(1 file)


Correspondence concerning housing at Sacriston, 1913 - 1919
(1 file)


Correspondence concerning housing at Usworth, 1913 - 1921
(1 file)


Correspondence concerning housing at Washington, 1913 - 1923
(1 file)


Correspondence concerning housing at Elizabethville, Birtley, 1919 - 1926
(1 file)


Correspondence concerning housing at Usworth, 1919 - 1926
(1 file)


Correspondence concerning housing at Washington, 1920 - 1922
(1 file)


Correspondence concerning housing at Eighton Banks, 1920 - 1923
(1 file)


Correspondence concerning housing at Perkinsville, 1923 - 1925
(1 file)


Correspondence concerning housing at Edmondsley, 1923 - 1927
(1 file)


Correspondence concerning housing at Lumley, 1924 - 1926
(1 file)


Correspondence concerning housing at Elizabethville, Birtley - specifications and description, 1933
(1 file)


File of Chester-le-Street R.D.C. correspondence re granting of subsidies under the Housing Act 1923, 1923 - 1926
(1 file)


File of correspondence re housing, 1925 - 1928
(1 file)


File of correspondence re housing, 2 March 1932 - 31 December 1935
(1 file)


Folder of correspondence re Housing Acts and schemes with surveyor's report and accounts etc., 1935 - 1938
(1 bundle)


Copy of correspondence from the Principal Housing Officer to the Town Clerk concerning additional fire protection to Airey Rural Houses, 16 July 1948 Originally enclosed in RD/CS 704
(1 paper)

Financial records (Ref: RD/CS (5) 435, 704-709)

Folder containing provisional balance sheet and appointments for the half year ended 30 September 1911 and account for disinfectant by Chester-le-Street Union, 1911
(1 bundle)


Housing Capital Expenditure Book 'no. 1' organised into sites, erections, roads, and sewers, includes schedule of completed purchases of land, 1947-1955
(1 volume)


Housing Capital Expenditure Book 'no. 2' organised into sites, erections, roads, and sewers, includes schedule of completed purchases of land, 1956-1968
(1 volume)


Housing Capital Expenditure Book 'no. 3' organised into sites, erections, roads, and sewers, includes schedule of completed purchases of land, 1969-1974
(1 volume)


Sanctions register, details of permissions for the Rural District Council to borrow money for housing, amount of loan raised, organised into housing, sewerage, scavenging, water supply, highways, and private street works, 1913-1970
(1 volume)


Advances from Loans Pool and advances from the capital fund, details of funding sources for improvements to housing stock including post-war housing, 1959-1974
(1 file)


Direct Labour Schemes completed, including expenditure, 1954-1955 Originally enclosed in RD/CS 704
(1 paper)