Slum clearance in the United Kingdom has been used as an urban renewal strategy to transform low-income settlements with poor reputation into another type of development or housing. Early mass clearan
Boundary Street in London, part of the Old Nichol slum
John Grantham, Sheriff of Newcastle, surveying slum clearance areas during a visit by the Minister of Health, 16 October 1925
Beaconsfield Street in Liverpool, pictured in 2012, originally to be demolished as part of housing renewal. The houses have since been restored.
Back-to-back house
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Back-to-backs are a form of terraced houses in the United Kingdom, built from the late 18th century through to the early 20th century in various forms throughout the North of England and parts of the
Slum clearance in the United Kingdom
…although not everyone displaced was re-homed, and only those who could pay the rent were offered a new home. In Leeds, where many slum clearances were of back-to-back houses, the land they occupied was very small and usually incapable of supporting any new profitable developments; this impacted upon site-value compensation…
Street-fronted back-to-back terraces in Harold Grove, Leeds
Back-to-back housing courtyard, 1883
Plans for houses in Nottingham, 1844
With no rear yard, across-street washing lines are employed with a pulley operated from street level.