| Description | Minute volume indexed. The minutes are printed and signed by the committee Chairman. The minute volume includes a summary of previous housing legislation and the effects of the 1875 Improvement Act; summaries of working class housing provision from the period 1875 - 1900; surveys of employers, housing socieities and tenants socieites regarding housing provision in the city (although, notably, not individual tenants or employees); observations on the impact of key pieces of legislation, such as the Housing and Town Planning Act, 1909; reports on potential sites for new housing estates, such as Bachelor's Farm and Birches Green, as well as related memoranda, reports, correspondence and financial information. There are also reports of visits by delegations of Corporation officials to similar housing developments in other British cities, and a report of the Birmingham Socialist Centre on a visit to new working class housing estates in Liverpool and Sheffield. Catalogue reference BCC/1/BR/1 provides a more detailed synopsis of developments in housing policy both during the period the committee was appointed and the critical period from 1875 - 1913. Catalogue record BCC/1/BR/1/1/1 provides a more detailed description of the contents of the minute book. |