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Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council, also known as Dudley Council, is the local authority for the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley in the West Midlands, England. The town of Dudley had been a borough since the thirteenth century, being reformed on numerous occasions. Since 1974 the council has been a metropolitan borough council. It provides the ...
The Metropolitan Borough of Dudley was created in 1974 from the existing boroughs of Dudley, the Municipal Borough of Stourbridge and the Municipal Borough of Halesowen.. This followed an earlier reorganisation in 1966, as per the provisions of the Local Government Act 1958, which saw an expansion of the three boroughs from the abolition of the surrounding urban districts of Amblecote ...
This is a list of notable council estates. Public housing in the United Kingdom has typically consisted of council houses , often built in the form of large estates by local government councils. Becontree in The London Borough of Barking & Dagenham is generally considered to be the largest council estate (in terms of population).
A mineral line once connected the local Wren's Nest quarry to the Seven Sister Tunnels and Dudley station as this 1930's O.S. map shows-. [2] The line was not present in 1903 as this-[3] 1903 O.S. map illustrates and was cut back by the Wren's Nest Estate by 1948 as this-[4] 1948 O.S map points out.
The Park itself was restored between 2012 and 2013 through support from Dudley Council, Heritage Lottery Fund and Big Lottery Fund. [2] Most of the people living in the council houses on the Priory Estate were rehoused from town centre slum clearances. They were generally pleased with living in new houses which had gardens, electricity, hot and ...
A large area of public open space, known as Russells Hall park, exists around the centre of the estate and in 2005 was earmarked by Dudley council as a possible site for mass housing development. The park has a children’s play area, skatepark and a non-turf cricket pitch. [5]
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