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Survey of Bedford Park Estate Completed The
Bedford Park Society announces completion of the first phase of its groundbreaking
"From Knowledge Comes Care " programme Bedford
Park, which influenced so much housing design of the first half of the 20th century,
includes houses by Norman Shaw, E W Godwin , E J May and Maurice Adams. Built
between 1875 and 1892 the estate has been described as "the first garden
suburb" because of its treelined streets and informal layout. It predates
Hampstead Garden Suburb by almost 30 years. In
a "first" for any conservation society, the BPS has carried out a detailed
survey of all the 356 listed buildings on the Bedford Park estate, this will be
incorporated with generic information about the area and its buildings, planning
legislation, history and technical notes into a Log Book which will be lodged
with every house. The information on each building is maintained on
a database
which will allow details on the houses to be easily available to the local planning
department, the society and home owners. Despite
the fact that the houses in Bedford Park are listed Grade 2, the Society was keen
to ensure that new owners fully understood the significance of their houses. With
house prices at over £2million, people moving into the neighbourhood can
afford to extensively refurbish their home — it is essential that this work is
carried out sensitively. The
FKCC programme has been made possible by a generous donation from Eleanor Greeves
whose late husband Tom formed the society in 1963. If
you are a Bedford Park Listed Building resident, then please collect your log
book at the Parish Hall on Saturday 30th November 2002 between 10am and midday.
If you are not available to do so please arrange for a friend to collect it on
your behalf as this greatly assists the logistics of distributing 400 or so bulky
folders. For more details see Listed
House Log Books Collection or email Peter Murray at secretary@bedfordpark.org
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