Norwich New Housing Estates  

New housing estates 00 [ Cooper Lane estate (1933 site of), Bargate Court Barrack Street (1936 council flats), Union Street (1938 council flats), Kett’s Hill (1947 pre-fabs) ]

• Cooper Lane estate site view to Lakenham [B515] 1933-04-08
• Barrack St Bargate Court view NW [2428] 1938-05-29
• Union St east side council flats [3010] 1939-05-25
• Kett's Hill post-war prefab homes [4707] 1962-09-01

New housing estates 01 [ Heartsease Lane, Harvey Lane ]

• Harvey Lane Heartsease surface drainage [4225] 1953-10-25
• Plumstead Rd Heartsease PH surface drainage [4226] 1953-10-25
• Heartsease Lane surface drainage [4227] 1953-10-25
• Heartsease Lane at Valley Drive view NW [4228] 1953-10-25
• Heartsease Lane at Salhouse Rd view SE [4231] 1953-10-25

As it was seen that all the land available in the city for house-building would be utilised within a few years, and area to the north-east (including the old Mousehold Aerodrome site) was in 1950 brought within the city boundary. Before houses could be erected, arrangements for linking the site with the sewerage system had to be made, and in 1953 tunnelling began in Harvey Lane for the surface drainage. Cranes in Harvey Lane were at the heads of shafts connecting with the tunnel, and were used in the removal of earth, and the lowering of the pre-cast concrete segments used in the formation of the drain walls.

New housing estates 02 [ Heartsease Estate site 1953 ]

• Heartsease Lane drainage contractors' huts [4232] 1953-10-25
• Heartsease Lane at Salhouse Rd view NW [4233] 1953-10-25
• Salhouse Rd from Heartsease airfield view N [4230] 1953-10-25
• Valley Drive view east Heartsease airfield [4229] 1953-10-25

New housing estates 03 [ Alderson’s Place Queen’s Road (1959-60), Coach and Horses Row Union Street (1961), Midland Street flats, Woodrow Pilling park (temporary wooden chalets 1990 to house tenants of neighbouring estate whilst their permanent homes were being underpinned) ]

• Queen's Rd Alderson Place [4709] 1962-09-07
• Union St Coach and Horses Row [4687] 1962-06-30
• Midland St four-storied corporation flats [4717] 1962-09-09
• Woodrow Pilling Park temporary chalets [6594] 1990-03-14

Text and photographs copyright George Plunkett

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