Rushden Research Group: council plans 12

Listed by Kay Collins, 2007

Council Plans - 1938 + oddments

Rushden Council Building Notices - Plans Passed by Rushden Parochial Sanitary Committee (later RUDC)

The plans are filed in date order, so they give us an insight into the development of our town. Sometimes the application was made by the builder contracted to a company or individual, but more often the company made the application, having employed the services of a draughtsman. Builders would buy a plot of land and make application to erect a house, or a pair of houses and as he increased his capital, so the number of houses on each application increased and even whole streets were eventually built by one builder. He in turn perhaps employed several smaller building companies or men with experience in a particular field.

The applications appear to have been passed just a few days after they were handed in.

no.			plans	street	for	month	year
3082			house	Cromwell Road	T Swindall & Sons	Jan	1938
3083			house	Blinco Road	T Swindall & Sons	Jan	1938
3084			house	Park Avenue	Arthur Sanders Ltd	Jan	1938
3085			pair of houses	Park Avenue	Arthur Sanders Ltd	Jan	1938
3086			house	Wymington Road	W H Dilley	Jan	1938
3087		---				Jan	1938
3088			bay window	Quorn Road	H & E C Pearson	Jan	1938
3089			new w/c	43 High Street South	T White	Jan	1938
3090			additions to warehouse	Portland Road	F Hawkes Ltd	Jan	1938
3091			27 bungalows	Court Estate (Newton Rd/Avenue Rd)	A W Osborne	Mar	1938
3092			factory	Lime Street	John White Ltd	Jan	1938
3093			pair of houses	Hall Avenue	M M Drabble	Jan	1938
3094			detached house	Hall Avenue	M M Drabble	Jan	1938
3095			detached villa	34 Wymington Road	J S Bayes	Jan	1938
3096			bungalow	Birchall Road	T Swindall & Sons	Jan	1938
3097			extension to factory	Spencer Road	Sanders & Sanders Ltd	Feb	1938
3098			additions to bakery	Newton Road	Rushden Industrial Co-op Society Ltd	Feb	1938
3099			house	Hayway	H R Patenall	Feb	1938
3214	to3216	& 3218	amended plan - 42 houses/bungalows	Hall Estate	Messrs M M Drabble	Jan	1939

unnumbered		^	3 houses	Moor Road/Lancaster Street	Swindall & Farmer	Feb	1888
unnumbered		^	letter re 3 cottages ref bylaws				1888
unnumbered		^	written specification for cottage & plan	Harborough Road	Mr Sugars	Apr	1889
unnumbered			fence around green (shows shops)	Church Parade	Paul Cave, Parish Waywarden	July	1890
unnumbered		^	oddments - in one envelope			1887	1891
unnumbered		^	builder's note re factory extension	Wellingborough Road	W Claridge		1894
unnumbered		^	house	Cromwell Road	H Gross	Feb	1898
perhaps 717?			additions to shop	High Street - opposite West Street	Mr C Denton		c1900
unnumbered			factory	Spencer Road	Sanders & Sanders Ltd	Nov	1908
unnumbered			estate	Upper Park Avenue	Arthur Sanders Ltd	May	1934
perhaps 2742?			type 'G' housing	St Marys Avenue	Waverley Building Co Ltd	Jul	1935
unnumbered			garage & shops	Shirley Road/Higham Road	Birch's Bus Garage	Oct	1936
unnumbered			additions to factory	Irchester Road	Eaton & Co	Sep	1937
unnumbered			pair of houses	Park Avenue	Arthur Sanders Ltd	May	1937
unnumbered			garage (building regs)	High Street South	Townsends Garages	-	1937
unnumbered			note re proposed factory	Lime Street	no objection - county planner	Jan	1938
unnumbered		^	application note re showroom	Wellingborough Road	Norris Industries Ltd		1970

KEY : Some envelopes are empty ~, some are missing ---.

A few are in a very poor state and are marked ^ in this list. (unable to unfold for inspection)

Only a few of the early documents have a date but it appears they were filed in date order.

Numbers on some envelopes have been used twice so I have added a "D" to the duplicates.

Most of the early plans are on tracing paper which has gone brittle with age, but by 1912 many were on linen.

Most envelopes have the details of property & street and some have the name of the owner or builder on the outer.

A few envelopes did not contain what is written on the outer but this is noted in the listing.

The Rushden Echo and Argus, 10th January 1941, transcribed by Gill Hollis

Year’s Building

The Surveyor reported that during 1940 plans were passed for one bungalow, seven additions to houses, seven additions to factories, a cowhouse, an electric sub-station, 11 garages, 10 air raid shelters and eight other buildings, chiefly sheds.

Nineteen houses were certified as completed and 14 were in course of construction, the majority being only at ground level. [Part of a longer article]

Council Plans - mainpage

NRO Ref: Accessions 2005/67 & 2005/96 (26 boxes)