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CHARLES COURT

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QUEENSTOWN AND LAYCOCK GATE REDEVELOPMENT

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Three seventeen-storey H-plan tower blocks built as a public housing redevelopment as part of the Queen's Park Estate. The blocks contained 192 dwellings in total. Each block consists of 32 one-bedroom flats and 32 two bedroom-flats. The blocks are brick clad. Each flat has a corner balcony. Construction was approved by committee in 1962.

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The blocks were constructed for Blackpool County Borough Council. The Primary and Alternate addresses are the individual addresses for each block; all are current and of equal status.
The Alternate Name is the name that was given to the contract for the development. (1)

The seventeen-storey blocks were part of a mixed development that also included seven three-storey blocks. John Turner & Sons (Preston) Ltd.'s tender for the whole contract was £733,381. The contract also included car parking and garages, and the construction of roads, sewers, footpaths and site layout. The flats were originally heated using the 'Halycon' gas system. (2)

The layout for the Queen's Park estate was designed by Donald Bradshaw - an architect for John Turner & Sons (Preston) Ltd. (3)

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(1) Miles Glendinning and Stefan Muthesius 1994 Tower block : modern public housing in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

Gazetteer 1 Page(s)358

(2) Externally held archive reference

Blackpool CBC Housing Committee Minutes, 29th Aug 1962, reproduced in the personal archive of Dr Miles Glendinning, held at Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh. Page(s)770

(3) Externally held archive reference

Blackpool CBC Housing Committee Minutes, 28th Nov 1966, reproduced in the personal archive of Dr Miles Glendinning, held at Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh. Page(s)1104

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