77-573: The Shaftesbury Park Estate , commonly known as The Shaftesbury Estate , is a residential estate in Battersea in South London , England . It lies north of Lavender Hill and Clapham Common and east of Clapham Junction railway station. The estate occupies a flat area of land at the edge of the River Thames flood plain, just north of the slope rising to Clapham Common. Historically,
154-495: A corporate bond , at a rate among the best secured by a housing association borrowing in its own name. In 2013 it issued a public bond for £350 million. In 2020 it played a leading role in creating the Sustainability Reporting Standard for Social Housing. In 2022 it issued its first £350m Sustainable Bond and in 2023 published a report detailing the projects it spent the money on. Peabody funded
231-516: A model dwellings company . Three years later, in a letter to The Times on 26 March 1862, he launched the Peabody Donation Fund, with an initial gift of £150,000. The aim of the organisation, he said, would be to "ameliorate the condition of the poor and needy of this great metropolis, and to promote their comfort and happiness". The paper reported, "We have today to announce an act of beneficence unexampled in its largeness and in
308-677: A finding of severe maladministration in respect of Peabody, relating to its failures to properly deal with reports of anti-social behaviour and noise nuisance, which led to a resident terminating her own tenancy to escape the situation. In October 2023, The Housing Ombudsman made a finding of three counts of severe maladministration against Peabody and ordered it to pay residents £8,300. This related to two separate investigations which found that it had left one household with intermittent hot water for nearly two years and another with leaks in multiple rooms for three years. Since taking over much of Thamesmead in 2014, Peabody have demolished large parts of
385-566: A great affection for London, and determined to make a charitable gift to benefit it. His initial ideas included a system of drinking fountains (comparable to the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association scheme actually set up by Samuel Gurney and Edward Thomas Wakefield in 1859), or a contribution to the " ragged schools " of the Earl of Shaftesbury . In March 1859, however, he settled on establishing
462-427: A night-time curfew and a set of moral standards to be adhered to; and the dwellings could not be used for certain trades. Peabody states that in pursuit of its mission it will: "help people flourish by providing great homes and services and making a positive impact in communities." Its stated values are: "Do the right thing; pull together: be kind; celebrate diversity; love new ideas; and keep our promises". Peabody
539-544: A number of trading companies. In July 2017, Peabody merged with Family Mosaic housing association under the "Peabody" name. On 1 April 2022 Catalyst Housing became a subsidiary of Peabody Trust and was fully integrated in April 2023. The new Peabody Group is responsible for over 104,000 homes and around 220,000 customers across London and the home counties. Housing associations borrow money to pay for new homes and improvements. In March 2011, Peabody raised £200 million on
616-502: A point, roughly three miles (4.8 km) from Battersea's northeastern corner – but two miles (3.2 km) from the western corner. To the east are South Lambeth and Stockwell ; to the south is Balham ; to the southeast is Clapham ; and to the west is Wandsworth Town , south of which is Wandsworth . Two large neighbourhoods within the larger Battersea are: Some parts of Battersea have become known for drug-dealing. The Winstanley and York Road council estates have developed
693-529: A range of industries such as mills, breweries and dyeing, bleaching and calico printing. Industry developed eastwards along the bank of the Thames during the Industrial Revolution from the 1750s onwards; the Thames provided water for transport, for steam engines and for water-intensive industrial processes. Bridges erected across the Thames encouraged growth; Putney Bridge , a mile to the west,
770-473: A red-brick Jacobethan style, opened in Commercial Street , Spitalfields , on 29 February 1864. It cost £22,000 to build, and contained 57 "dwellings" (i.e. flats ) for the poor, nine shops with accommodation for the shopkeepers, and baths and laundry facilities on the upper floor. Water-closets were grouped in pairs by the staircases, with one shared between every two flats. This first block
847-590: A reputation for such offences and were included in a zero-tolerance "drug exclusion zone" in 2007. As of 2011 , Battersea had a population of 73,345. The district was 52.2% of White British origin, as against an average for Wandsworth of 53.3%. Within the bounds of modern Battersea are (from east to west): Battersea is served by three National Rail stations: Battersea Park , Clapham Junction , and Queenstown Road (Battersea) . All three stations are in London Travelcard Zone 2 . Battersea Park
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#1732797604566924-416: A third strand of Family Mosaic was its role in assisting people to get onto the property ladder through leasehold shared ownership properties. In April 2017, Family Mosaic announced that it would be launching a 111 home development for private rental tenants. Family Mosaic also ran employment training courses and activity groups for its residents. It also offered welfare benefits advice. Family Mosaic
1001-514: Is centred 3.5 miles (5.6 km) southwest of Charing Cross it also extends along the south bank of the Thames Tideway . It includes the 200-acre (0.81 km ) Battersea Park . Battersea is mentioned in the few surviving Anglo-Saxon geographical accounts as Badrices īeg , 'Badric's Island' and later [Patrisey] Error: {{Langx}}: invalid parameter: |abbr= ( help ) . As with many former parishes beside tidal flood plains
1078-733: Is connected to the London Underground network at Battersea Power Station tube station in September 2021. London Bus routes 44 , 137 , 156 , 211 , 344 , 436 , 19 , 49 , 319 , 345 and 452 serve the Battersea area during the daytime. Night buses N19 , N137 and N44 , as well as the 344 and 345 route, run overnight. Cycling infrastructure in Battersea is provided by the London Borough of Wandsworth and Transport for London (TfL). Battersea features in
1155-578: Is leading the regeneration of Thamesmead , Abbey Wood and Plumstead in South-East London. The Group worked with the Royal Borough of Greenwich and the London Borough of Bexley to successfully bid for Greater London Authority housing zone status, which led to a c£80 million investment. The new development provides thousands of new homes in the area, Peabody says it will provide firm foundations for Thamesmead's long term. However,
1232-596: Is on the curved south bank of the River Thames . Battersea's northern limit is thus the Tideway , the Thames below Teddington . Battersea's riverside is just over 3 miles (4.8 km) long. Immediately to the west is Wandsworth Town . To the north-east are Vauxhall and then Lambeth , including Waterloo . Battersea at one end of its riverside has a western corner at a point 350 metres east northeast of Wandsworth Bridge , and Battersea tapers SSE to almost
1309-416: Is one of London 's oldest and largest housing associations with over 100,000 homes across London and the home counties . It is also a community benefit society and urban regeneration agency, with a focus on placemaking, stewardship and a provider of an extensive range of community programmes. The Trust was founded in 1862 by London-based American banker George Peabody , who in the 1850s had developed
1386-563: Is served by some South Western Railway trains. Northbound, most trains call at Vauxhall en route to London Waterloo. Southbound passengers can travel towards Richmond, Twickenham , Hounslow , and Windsor & Eton direct. Queenstown Road opened up the line on 1 November 1877 by the London and South Western Railway , as Queen's Road (Battersea) . British Rail renamed the station to Queenstown Road (Battersea) on 12 May 1980. As part of Northern line extension to Battersea , Battersea
1463-399: Is served by some Southern trains. Trains northbound terminate at London Victoria , which is the next stop along the line. Southbound, Southern's " metro " services run to Clapham Junction, Wandsworth Common , and Balham . After Balham, trains head towards Croydon , Epsom , London Bridge , and Sutton , amongst other destinations. The first station to carry the name "Battersea Park"
1540-535: The London, Chatham and Dover Railway in 1867 and closed in 1916. The largest railway station in Battersea is Clapham Junction, to the southwest of the district. The station is a busy interchange, and it serves destinations across London, the South , and South West England . Train operators from Clapham Junction include: In terms of the number of train movements, Clapham Junction is Europe's busiest railway station. It opened on 21 May 1838. Queenstown Road (Battersea)
1617-464: The 1969 movie Battle of Britain, in the movie as in real life used as a navigational landmark by the attacking Luftwaffe bombers. The Optimists of Nine Elms , a 1973 film starring Peter Sellers , is set in Battersea. Battersea is also the setting for Penelope Fitzgerald 's 1979 Booker Prize –winning novel, Offshore . Kitty Neale's Nobody's Girl is set in a fictional café and the surrounding Battersea High Street Market. Nell Dunn 's 1963 novel Up
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#17327976045661694-541: The Junction (later adapted for both television and cinema) depicts contemporary life in the industrial slums of Battersea near Clapham Junction . Battersea provides the backdrop for the real world scenes in the audio book and app series Rockford's Rock Opera . Peabody Trust The Peabody Trust was founded in 1862 as the Peabody Donation Fund and now brands itself simply as Peabody . It
1771-963: The London Mayor's new Housing Zones. Further north towards Chelsea is the Surrey Lane Estate , and on Battersea Park Road is the Doddington and Rollo Estate. East, toward Vauxhall, is the Patmore Estate which is in close proximity to the Battersea Power Station. Other smaller estates include: York Road (see Winstanley Estate ), Ashley Crescent, Badric Court, Carey Gardens, Chatham Road, Ethelburga, Falcon Road, Gideon Road, Honeywell Road, Kambala, Peabody, Robertson Street, Savona, Somerset, Wilditch and Wynter Street. The tradition of local government in England
1848-582: The London markets and were the first growers to cultivate and introduce asparagus. One gardener had 40 acres (160,000 m) of asparagus under cultivation, and at one time there were three hundred acres of market gardens within a mile of St Mary's Church, Battersea . The gardens were most probably improved by the Huguenots who settled in Wandsworth in 1639. When Pig Hill became Latchmere Road this land
1925-576: The National Anti-Vivisection Society sought permission to erect a drinking fountain celebrating the life of a dog killed by vivisection . The fountain, forming a plinth for the statue of a brown dog, was installed in the Latchmere Recreation Ground , became a cause célèbre, fought over in riots and battles between medical students and the local populace until its removal in 1910. The borough elected
2002-711: The St John Baronets of Lydiard Tregoze and ultimately the Viscounts Bolingbroke . Bolingbrokes exercised control of the manor for some 173 years, showing varying levels of interest and competence in running the estate's affairs, until in 1763 the disastrously dissolute Frederick St John, 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke sold the manor to help to settle his many debts. Battersea now passed into the Spencer family - John Spencer, 1st Earl Spencer being related to Frederick's wife. The Survey of London identified
2079-501: The Thames foreshore; and a Spencer was responsible for the construction of first local bridge across the Thames, Battersea Bridge from 1771 to 1772. And albeit Battersea saw some slow change over the first seven centuries of the second millennium, it was not until a later period that an imperative for greater local government arose. The vestry of Battersea continued to increase in importance from 1742, notably concerning itself with Poor Law administration and drainage. Responsibility for
2156-596: The abbey, variously termed a beadle , reeve or sergeant , whose responsibility it was supervise the farm servants of the manor, and to enforce and direct customary work performed by manorial tenants. After 1540 the Crown assumed ownership of the manor, and let it on short leases to a succession of individuals, until in about 1590 it came into the hands of the St. John family of Lydiard Tregoze in Wiltshire, who later became
2233-604: The area shows the following factories, in order, from the site of the as yet unbuilt Wandsworth Bridge to Battersea Park: Starch manufacturer; Silk manufacturer; (St. John's College); (St. Mary's Church); Malt house; Corn mill; Oil and grease works (Prices Candles); Chemical works; Plumbago Crucible works (later the Morgan Crucible Company ); Chemical works; Saltpetre works; Foundry. Between these were numerous wharfs for shipping. In 1929, construction started on Battersea Power Station , being completed in 1939. From
2310-471: The area was known as Pig Hill because of the large number of piggeries in the area. The Domesday Book says that brickmaking was carried on in some fields on Pig Hill. Cattle breeding also flourished to some extent in the area. Pig Hill formed part of Latchmoor Common, an area of common land belonging to the parish for the common good. Under the power of the Inclosure Act dating back to William IV,
2387-521: The area was occupied by Battersea Fields, the poorly drained common land covering the area as far as the river. The Heathwall River ran along the foot of the slope and drained into the River Effra and Falcon Brook, making Battersea an island; present-day Heathwall Street marks the line of this watercourse. A stream crossed the area on the line of present-day Grayshott Road. In the Middle Ages
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2464-551: The books of Michael de Larrabeiti , who was born and brought up in the area: A Rose Beyond the Thames recounts the working-class Battersea of the 1940s and 1950s; The Borrible Trilogy presents a fictional Battersea, home to fantasy creatures known as the Borribles. The station makes a brief appearance in The Beatles ' second film, Help! , in 1965. It also appears during the first daylight attack on London sequence in
2541-462: The borough and after the turmoil of dock strikes affecting the populace of north Battersea, was elected to represent the borough in the newly formed London County Council . In 1892, he expanded his role, being elected to Parliament for Battersea North as one of the first Independent Labour Party members of Parliament. Battersea's radical reputation gave rise to the Brown Dog affair , when in 1904
2618-434: The churchwardens and overseers of Battersea enclosed about 16 acres (65,000 m) of Latchmoor Common and let it out in allotments at a low rental, to the residents of the parish, for the cultivation of vegetables. At the start of the seventeenth century, the allotments were flourishing and Battersea had become famous for its market gardening . The gardeners were known for their quality produce which fetched high prices in
2695-469: The consultation has been controversial, as the ballot conducted in March 2020 asked the 'yes' or 'no' question: " Are you in favour of Peabody's proposal to include Lesnes Estate in their regeneration plans for South Thamesmead? ". Whilst having 70% support with a 65% turnout, the word 'demolition' was not featured in the consultation, that is now the threat against many residents of the estate. Thamesmead and
2772-424: The development of a plurality of smaller estates, which had implications for the later development of the area. The scope of governance throughout this period was relatively slight. Lords of the manor were responsible for church appointments and maintenance of the fabric of the church; for drainage, and for the direction of the duties of the manor's tenants. From time to time work was done under manorial direction on
2849-434: The early twentieth century. During the latter decades of the nineteenth century Battersea had developed into a major town railway centre with two locomotive works at Nine Elms and Longhedge and three important motive power depots (Nine Elms, Stewarts Lane and Battersea) all in an initial pocket of north Battersea. The effect was precipitate: a population of 6,000 people in 1840 was increased to 168,000 by 1910; and save for
2926-453: The end of large scale local industry, resurgent demand among magnates and high income earners for parkside and riverside property close to planned Underground links has led to significant construction, Factories have been demolished and replaced with modern apartment buildings. Some of the council owned properties have been sold off and several traditional working men's pubs have become more fashionable bistros. Battersea neighbourhoods close to
3003-457: The estate a sense of identity and distinctiveness. The grid layout, with streets of varying lengths but always straight (except Eversleigh Road, which is aligned with the railway embankment), allows for easy movement throughout the estate. There is a sense of formality in the townscape arising from the grid layout and the repetition in the building frontages. The Peabody Trust owns most of the estate, but many homes are already privately owned, and
3080-469: The first black mayor in London in 1913 when John Archer took office, and in 1922 elected the Bombay -born Communist Party member Shapurji Saklatvala as MP for Battersea; one of only two communist members of Parliament. Battersea is currently divided into five Wandsworth wards. The Member of Parliament for the Battersea constituency since 8 June 2017 has been Labour MP Marsha de Cordova . Battersea
3157-453: The first estate directly built by a council's own workforce and therefore the first true "council estate". Indeed, both of these earlier estates have since been recognised as conservation areas due to their historical and architectural significance and are protected from redevelopment. Battersea also has a large area of mid-20th century public housing estates, almost all located north of the main railway lines and spanning from Fairfield in
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3234-488: The floor for over two-and-a-half years. During this period neighbours tried repeatedly to raise the alarm regarding a putrid smell and maggot infestation without success while Peabody, who were aware that Ms Seleoane had not paid her rent since August 2019, started taking rent payments out of her Universal Credit benefits in March 2020 and cut off the gas supply to the flat in June 2020. In June 2023, The Housing Ombudsman made
3311-642: The focus of the area southwards, and marginalised Battersea High Street (the main street of the original village) into no more than an extension of Falcon Road. Battersea has a long and varied history of social housing, and the completion of the Shaftesbury Park Estate in 1877 was one of the earliest in London or the UK. Additionally, the development of the Latchmere Estate in 1903 was notable both for John Burns ' involvement and for being
3388-500: The foundation-stone of buildings at the estate, thus giving it a name. The estate layout and house designs were by the company's Architect and Surveyor, Robert Austin, formerly a carpenter with the company. However, financial difficulties, caused by poor accounting, led to replacement of the directors of the company and a change of approach during the construction of the estate. Rents and lease prices were raised, excluding many lower paid workers who were originally intended to benefit, and
3465-400: The government to site its buildings in the area surrounding Clapham Junction , where a cluster of new civic buildings including the town hall, library, police station, court and post office was developed along Lavender Hill in the 1880s and 1890s. The Arding & Hobbs department store, diagonally opposite the station, was the largest of its type at the time of its construction in 1885; and
3542-430: The green spaces of Battersea Park , Clapham Common , Wandsworth Common and some smaller isolated pockets, all other farmland was built over, with, from north to south, industrial buildings and vast railway sheds and sidings (much of which remain), slum housing for workers, especially north of the main east–west railway, and gradually more genteel residential terraced housing further south. The railway station encouraged
3619-407: The late 18th century to comparatively recent times, Battersea was established as an industrial area with all of the issues associated with pollution and poor housing affecting it. Industry declined and moved away from the area in the 1970s, and local government sought to address chronic post-war housing problems with large scale clearances and the establishment of planned housing. Some decades after
3696-567: The latter was removed from the vestry in 1855 with the establishment of Metropolitan Boards of Work under the Metropolis Management Act 1855 ; a Metropolitan Board concerned itself with cross-London drainage and sewerage, whilst a local Wandsworth Metropolitan Board assumed responsibility for minor sewers and the connection of houses to sewerage systems. It was during the tenure of the Wandsworth board that much of Battersea
3773-888: The launch of RTM FM community radio station based in Thamesmead along with Thamesmead Arts and Culture Office (TACO), That SP Studios, and Sam Skinner. Prior to its merger with Peabody, Family Mosaic was a housing association in the United Kingdom . It had over 25,000 homes housing over 45,000 people and was one of the largest housing providers in London , Essex and the South East of England . Family Mosaic also provided care and support services to over 8,000 people. Family Mosaic worked with young people, helping them into work and promoting better health. In addition to offering specialist housing for people with support needs and social housing for general needs tenants,
3850-751: The lowest land was reclaimed for agriculture by draining marshland and building culverts for streams. By the side of this was the Heathwall tide mill in the north-east with a very long mill pond regularly draining and filling to the south. The settlement appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Middle English : Patricesy , a vast manor held by St Peter's Abbey, Westminster . Its Domesday Assets were: 18 hides and 17 ploughlands of cultivated land; 7 mills worth £42 9s 8d per year, 82 acres (33 ha) of meadow , woodland worth 50 hogs . It rendered (in total): £75 9s 8d. The present church, which
3927-471: The new Peabody Group will be responsible for 104,000 homes and around 220,000 customers across London and the home counties. In 2012, Family Mosaic was paid an out of court settlement by Haringey London Borough Council because of the council's failure to pay additional costs of over £108,000 for two care home residents. A number of complaints have been made against Family Mosaic in the national and local press, including heating being cut-off for five months of
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#17327976045664004-464: The north east tip of the area. Over the next 22 years five other lines were built, which continue to carry all of the trains to and from London's Waterloo and Victoria termini. An interchange station was built in 1863 towards the north west of the area, at a junction of the railway. Taking the name of a fashionable village a mile and more away, the station was named ' Clapham Junction ': a campaign to rename it "Battersea Junction" fizzled out as late as
4081-454: The number continues to rise as the Trust gradually releases more units for sale. [REDACTED] Media related to Shaftesbury Park Estate at Wikimedia Commons 51°28′08″N 0°09′18″W / 51.469°N 0.155°W / 51.469; -0.155 Battersea Battersea is a large district in southwest London , part of the London Borough of Wandsworth , England. It
4158-468: The overseer of any parish had the power to enclose waste or common land, less than 50 acres (200,000 m), lying in or near the parish. Under the Act, the parish then had to cultivate and improve such waste land for the use and benefit of the parish, and also had the power to let such enclosed land in allotments to the inhabitants of the parish to be cultivated on their own account. Taking advantage of this Act,
4235-452: The parish of Battersea was part of the county of Surrey . In that year a new County of London came into being and the parish was made part of it. Before the Industrial Revolution , much of the large parish was farmland, providing food for the City of London and surrounding population centres; and with particular specialisms, such as growing lavender on Lavender Hill (nowadays denoted by
4312-817: The period of Frederick's tenure with the development of the Vestry in Battersea; absent a competent lord of the manor, this local secular and ecclesiastical government took it upon itself to establish a workhouse in 1733, and met monthly from 1742. The period of Spencer ownership of the manor saw important land ownership changes introduced to the area. The family had many estates, such as at Althorp in Northamptonshire and Wiseton in Nottinghamshire. Locally, their interests were concentrated on Wimbledon . During their tenure, large tracts of land were sold, notably around 1761, and from 1835 to 1838, leading to
4389-583: The planned area of open space was built over – Brassey Square in the centre of the estate. The estate was built between 1873 and 1877 and comprises about 1,200 two-storey houses with gardens laid out in wide tree-lined streets. The estate houses are of four basic types or classes distinguished by the number of rooms (only the highest class originally had bathrooms). The street elevations are varied slightly to avoid monotony, creating generally attractive street frontages. They are consistently of stock brick with red brick dressings and pitched slate roofs, which gives
4466-529: The railway have some of the most deprived local authority housing in the Borough of Wandsworth, in an area which saw condemned slums after their erection in the Victoria era. Battersea was radically altered by the coming of railways. The London and Southampton Railway Company engineered their railway line from east to west through Battersea, in 1838, terminating at the original Nine Elms railway station at
4543-492: The road of the same name), asparagus (sold as "Battersea Bundles") or pig breeding on Pig Hill (later the site of the Shaftesbury Park Estate ). At the end of the 18th century, above 300 acres (1.2 km ) of land in the parish of Battersea were occupied by some 20 market gardeners, who rented from five to near 60 acres (24 ha) each. Villages in the wider area: Wandsworth, Earlsfield (hamlet of Garratt), Tooting, Balham – were separated by fields; in common with other suburbs
4620-461: The same time as the conception of the estate, the social reformer and peer Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury was pushing legislation through parliament to improve the living and employment conditions of working people and sponsoring philanthropic efforts to provide schooling for their children. Under Shaftesbury's guardianship new so-called Ragged Schools were established providing free education in 1844. On 3 August 1872, Shaftesbury laid
4697-472: The streets near the station developed as a regional shopping district. The area was served by a vast music hall – The Grand – opposite the station (nowadays serving as a nightclub and venue for smaller bands) as well as a large theatre next to the town hall (the Shakespeare Theatre, later redeveloped following bomb damage). All this building around the station shifted
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#17327976045664774-517: The surrounding area is facing significant change since Crossrail opened at nearby Abbey Wood in 2022. Peabody has said it will capitalise on this, ensuring "the right amenities, infrastructure and transport connections are available for the long term sustainability" of the area. In 2014, Gallions, Trust Thamesmead and Tilfen Land became part of the Peabody Group. The Peabody Group now comprises two housing associations, Peabody and Gallions, and
4851-405: The time and manner of the gift". Shortly before his death in 1869, Peabody increased his gift to £500,000. The Peabody Trust was later constituted by Act of Parliament , stipulating its objectives to work solely within London for the relief of poverty . This was to be expressed through the provision of model dwellings for the capital's poor. The first block, designed by H. A. Darbishire in
4928-685: The wealthy of London and the traditional manor successors built their homes in Battersea and neighbouring areas. Industry in the area was concentrated to the northwest just outside the Battersea-Wandsworth boundary, at the confluence of the River Thames and the River Wandle , which gave rise to the village of Wandsworth . This was settled from the 16th century by Protestant craftsmen – Huguenots – fleeing religious persecution in Europe, who planted lavender and gardens and established
5005-399: The west to Queenstown in the east. There are four particularly large estates. The Winstanley Estate , perhaps being the most renowned of them all, is known as being the birthplace to the garage collective So Solid Crew . Winstanley is close to Clapham Junction railway station in the northern perimeter of Battersea, and is currently being considered for comprehensive redevelopment as one of
5082-647: The year, a ceiling collapsing, poor administration at one of its care homes, and a rodent infestation. In 2014, Family Mosaic took the unusual step of apologising to its tenants after a malfunctioning computer system led to an increase in complaints about its repairs service. In February 2022, the body of Peabody tenant Sheila Seleoane was discovered in the hallway of her flat, with the Coroner later concluding that she had collapsed and died in August 2019. Investigations revealed that she had lain dead and decomposing on
5159-454: Was a member of the G15 group of housing associations in London . In July 2017 Family Mosaic merged with Peabody Trust housing association under the "Peabody" name. Catalyst Housing is a housing association operating in London and the south-east of England. On 1 April 2022 Catalyst became a subsidiary of The Peabody Trust. The intention is to move to full integration by April 2023. Once complete,
5236-792: Was based in part of Manor , and later on the Parish . Battersea's governance can be traced back to 693, when the manor was held by the nunnery of St. Mary at Barking Abbey . After the Norman Conquest of 1066, control of the manor passed to Westminster Abbey , ending at the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1540. Battersea was one of only three of the Abbey's demesne directly supervised by monks, rather than being let to tenants. Local control rested with an officer appointed by
5313-676: Was built in 1729 and rebuilt 1882, and Battersea Bridge in the centre of the north boundary in 1771. Inland from the river, the rural agricultural community persisted. Along the Thames, a number of large and, in their field, pre-eminent firms grew; notably the Morgan Crucible company, which survives to this day and is listed on the London Stock Exchange ; Price's Candles, which also made cycle lamp oil; oil refiner and paint manufacturer S. Bowley and Son ; and Orlando Jones' Starch Factory. The 1874 Ordnance Survey map of
5390-408: Was completed in 1777, hosted the marriage of William Blake and Catherine Boucher in 1782. Benedict Arnold , his wife Peggy Shippen , and their daughter were buried in the crypt of the church. Battersea Park , a 200-acre (0.81 km ) northern rectangle by the Thames, was landscaped and founded for public use in 1858. Amenities and leisure buildings have been added to it since. Until 1889,
5467-439: Was dedicated to providing decent accommodation for the working classes at a time when overcrowding and squalid living conditions were rife amongst the poor. Money was raised to undertake small developments for sale, the proceeds of which were then invested in larger estates, like Shaftesbury Park, for renting. The land for the Battersea estate was purchased in 1872; three other estates were developed elsewhere. The original concept
5544-633: Was developed; but such was the pace of development in Battersea that by 1887 it had a population sufficient to win the case for renewed local autonomy under the Metropolis Management (Battersea and Westminster) Act of 1887. The Battersea vestry continued through to 1899, when it became the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea as a result of the London Government Act 1899 . The Metropolitan Borough of Battersea
5621-456: Was followed by larger estates in Islington , Poplar , Shadwell , Chelsea , Westminster , Bermondsey , and elsewhere. By 1882 the Trust housed more than 14,600 people in 3,500 dwellings. By 1939 it owned more than 8,000 dwellings. In its early days, the Trust imposed strict rules to ensure that its tenants were of good moral character. Rents were to be paid weekly and punctually; there was
5698-662: Was in 1965 combined with the neighbouring Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth to form the London Borough of Wandsworth . The former Battersea Town Hall , opened in 1893, is now the Battersea Arts Centre . In the period from 1880 onwards, Battersea was known as a centre of radical politics in the United Kingdom. John Burns founded a branch of the Social Democratic Federation , Britain's first organised socialist political party, in
5775-529: Was known as the Latchmere allotments. The allotments were later sold to Samuel Poupart (the rail junction to the north is still known as Poupart's Junction) and became known as Poupart's Market Garden. In the 1870s, it became residential when the Artizans, Labourers and General Dwelling Company , a housing co-operative founded in 1867 by William Austin, built several thousand small homes on it. The company
5852-409: Was opened by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR) as "Battersea" on 1 October 1860 and was located at the southern end of what is now Grosvenor Bridge. It closed on 1 November 1870. The LB&SCR opened another station on a high-level line on 1 May 1867 called Battersea Park . Another station existed closed to the current station called Battersea Park Road railway station by
5929-399: Was to combine new housing of various classes with social facilities such as meeting rooms, school rooms, a wash house and baths, and to provide integral open space (3 acres of the 40 acres (160,000 m) bought). One facility certainly not to be provided on the estate was a public house, which was an attempt by the reformers behind the scheme to avoid the social problems of cheap alcohol. At
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