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Policies
Policies On this page you will find all the policies you might need during your time as a Women’s Pioneer Housing resident.Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB) Policy This policy sets out our definition of anti-social behaviour and how we will handle reports from our tenants. Download: Anti-Social Behaviour PolicyAsbestos Management PolicyThis policy outlines our approach to the management of…
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65 Harrington Gardens
65 Harrington GardensStep inside 65 Harrington GardensPlan for 65 Harrington Gardens, Kensington c 1931 WPH archive, London Metropolitan ArchivesWomen’s Pioneer Housing purchased 65 Harrington Gardens in 1931. The organisation’s architect Gertrude Leverkus set about converting the four storey building into 9 self-contained flats, each with its own sitting room, bedroom, pantry and bathroom. This meant…
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A history of WPHWhy was Women’s Pioneer Housing needed?Unless some special effort was made on a co-operative basis to provide suitable housing at reasonable rents, the professional woman would be hampered in her career for want of a proper home and would see her standard of life and comfort reduced to vanishing point.Women’s Pioneer Housing…
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Website Privacy Statement Purpose This privacy statement (fair processing notice) sets out Women Pioneer Housing’s (WPH) commitment to the protection of personal data and explains what data we hold, why we hold it and what we do with it.WPH is a Housing Association registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) as a data controller.Information we…
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Pioneering DesignPioneering Design: Gertrude Leverkus, Women’s Pioneer Housing architectGertrude Leverkus Private collectionGertrude Leverkus was the first woman to graduate with a BA from the Bartlett School of Architecture at UCL, in 1918. At that time, UCL offered the only architecture course open to women. After passing the examinations of the Royal Institute of British Architecture…
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Apply for a moveIf you are already one of our tenants but would like to move home, there are a number of options open to you. Transfers If you want to move to another flat, you can apply to join our transfer list. Please speak to your Housing Officer about how the process works, how…
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Privacy notice
Privacy Notice FAIR PROCESSING NOTICE FOR OUR TENANTS Women’s Pioneer Housing Ltd and the GDPRUnder the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Women’s Pioneer Housing Ltd (WPH) are committed to protecting your data and complying with the rules and regulations set out in handling your personal data. This Fair Processing Notice outlines our privacy policy…
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Meet the Residents
ResidentsThis society was started three years ago as a sort of mother in housing to professional and other independent women and has now nearly 100 flats to its credit. These flats are let out at moderate rents to women who can have what number of rooms they choose, what wall-paper they choose – what food…
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Saving Energy Costs
Find out about various grants and schemes that may help towards paying off your energy bills.
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Etheldred Browning
Etheldred BrowningEtheldred Browning1869 – 1946 Founder of Women’s Pioneer Housing Etheldred was born Edith Anna Browning on 17th September 1869 in Donnybrook, Dublin, the third of four children. She came from an aristocratic Anglo-Irish family included in Burke’s Irish Peerage. Her father Jeffrey Francis Browning (1832-1889) was a lawyer, who served as Solicitor to the Court of the Irish Land Commission. Her mother, Julia Mary Smart (1841-1925) was born in London, the…