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History of Barnsbury

Official Openings Barnbsbury MewsBarnsbury Housing  Association was formed in May 1967 by a group of local professionals including an architect, a surveyor, a structural engineer, a solicitor, an accountant etc., all of whom had an interest in social housing.  In those days there was a housing shortage and such groups were encouraged to form housing associations to develop social housing to help supplement local authorities with an alternative form of public housing.  Up until 1974, such groups of professionals could claim fees for the work they carried out.  In our case not all the professionals claimed their full fees and today our Board (apart from the Chief Executive) is made up of entirely of voluntary members who give their time freely and receive no remuneration.

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The Barnsbury Beech

Barnsbury Beech

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In 1994 BHA embarked on its first new scheme since 1975 when we completed Barnsbury Mews (Morland Mews, Lofting Road, Gissing Walk and Pugin Court).

The intervening years had been blighted by a long running legal battle in respect of latent defects on the Barnsbury Mews scheme. 

The builders, J & J Dean went into liquidation as soon as the scheme had been completed.  On legal advice we therefore pursued a legal action against the architect.  We had to do this because the Greater London Council was unable to fund the necessary repairs unless we had exhausted every other legal means of recourse (see Housing Corporation circular 21/82).

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