The Estate - Bevendean History Project
Bevendean Estate and other Local Self-Build Schemes
| Plymouth Avenue In June, 1948, twenty demobilised men decided that the only way to get homes for their families was to build them for themselves. |
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Heath Hill Avenue Apex Self Build Association built 26 bungalows on the north side of Heath Hill Avenue while Bevendean Self Build Association built 24 bungalows on the south side. |
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| Ashurst Road Between 1955 and 1957 Fourty men of the Brighton Self-Build Housing Association built their own houses in Ashurst Road. |
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| Hogs Edge Between 1997 and 2000 ten families built wooden houses on stilts for their families in Hogs Edge at Bevendean. This is their story. |
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| Jevington Drive Houses and bungalows were built in the 1960s on land by Housing Associations. The land was originally owned by B. T. Rogers-Tillstone of Moulsecoomb Place. |
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| Selba Drive Coldean Self-Build Housing Association formed about 1958 and built bungalows in Selba Drive. |
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| Wheatfield Way 26 Bungalows were built in Wheatfield Way by a group of men in the early 1960s. |
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| Lucraft and Eggington Road A group of men came together to form the ‘Brighton Enterprise Self-Build Housing Association’ to build 42 semidetached houses in the 1950s. |
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