CAS[h] - Quarry Hill flats {2 of 6}

View of one internal area, including a playground for children.

Back in the early 1930s, a certain Rev'd Charles Jenkinson was agitating for slum clearances in the [mostly] inner city areas of Leeds. {much to the displeasure of his Bishop !} CJ was elected to the council and was Chair of the Housing Committee between 1933 and 1936. This body appointed RAH Livett as Housing Director and he designed the QH flats scheme, of 938 flats on a 29 acre site which cost half a million pounds to build. The flats were a vast improvement on the "back to back" terraces they replaced. For example, the flats had indoor plumbing instead of cubicles down the street in a gunnel, plus modern cooking and waste disposal equipment.
Sadly, by the 1970s they required further modernisation and costly maintenance, which was not forthcoming. Additionally, the flats had become something of a social dumping ground, not only that the people of Leeds didn't really embrace Corbusier's ideal of living in blocks of flats.
As a result, the flats were demolished in 1978 and the area has been redeveloped.
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