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Latchmere Estate
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'''''Latchmere Estate''''' is a housing estate in Battersea, [[Greater London]], which was constructed in 1903. It is the first example of a housing estate built with labour directly employed by a local council authority.
In the 1890s, John Burns, the MP for Battersea, secured acts of parliament allowing for the construction of the estate on the former Latchmere Common. A design competition was held which attracted 58 entries in 1901, and construction began soon after. For the time, the estate contained things like electric lighting and combined ranges which were considered luxuries. The estate was built with 315 dwellings, "28 five-room houses, one four-room house, 70 houses each with two three-room tenements with bath scullery and 73 houses each with two four-room tenements with bath scullery."<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>
The estate is now part of Wandsworth Council's Latchmere Estate Conservation Area, which was designated in 1974.<ref> Winchester White|url=http://www.winchester-white.co.uk/about/property-guides/battersea/burns-conservation-area|website=www.winchester-white.co.uk|access-date=2020-04-30}}</ref> A planning strategy for the conservation area was published by the council in 2007.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>
'''''Latchmere Estate''''' is a housing estate in Battersea, [[Greater London]], which was constructed in 1903. It is the first example of a housing estate built with labour directly employed by a local council authority.
In the 1890s, John Burns, the MP for Battersea, secured acts of parliament allowing for the construction of the estate on the former Latchmere Common. A design competition was held which attracted 58 entries in 1901, and construction began soon after. For the time, the estate contained things like electric lighting and combined ranges which were considered luxuries. The estate was built with 315 dwellings, "28 five-room houses, one four-room house, 70 houses each with two three-room tenements with bath scullery and 73 houses each with two four-room tenements with bath scullery."<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>
The estate is now part of Wandsworth Council's Latchmere Estate Conservation Area, which was designated in 1974.<ref> Winchester White|url=http://www.winchester-white.co.uk/about/property-guides/battersea/burns-conservation-area|website=www.winchester-white.co.uk|access-date=2020-04-30}}</ref> A planning strategy for the conservation area was published by the council in 2007.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>
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