{"id":16832,"date":"2017-10-03T16:01:22","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T15:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=16832"},"modified":"2017-10-02T18:06:29","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T17:06:29","slug":"bct-partners-to-preserve-brums-rare-1945-prefab-houses-first-expected-to-last-only-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=16832","title":{"rendered":"BCT &#038; partners to preserve Brum&#8217;s rare 1945 prefab houses, first expected to last only a decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/BCT_prefab_image021017.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-16833\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/BCT_prefab_image021017-214x300.png\" alt=\"BCT prefab article image\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>The Birmingham Mail reports that experts \u2013 including the Birmingham Conservation Trust (BCT) are considering ways to preserve a much-loved row of prefab houses built in Birmingham as temporary accommodation in 1945.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Birmingham Conservation Trust, in partnership with the Twentieth Century Society and the Prefab Museum, has secured a \u00a34,000 grant from Historic England to plan restoration works on the post-war dwellings.<\/p>\n<p>The cottage-style bungalows in Wake Green Road, Moseley, were among 4,000 prefabs built in Birmingham and 16 of the 17 homes were given listed status in 1998.<\/p>\n<p>Built in the months after the end of World War Two, the Phoenix-model prefabs &#8211; 10 of which are still occupied by council tenants &#8211; were originally expected to last for around a decade.<\/p>\n<p>Jane Hearn, of the Prefab Museum, said: \u2018The Wake Green Prefabs are the only Phoenix-type post-war prefabs listed in the UK. Mainly still lived in and cherished, it is great news the Birmingham Conservation Trust is willing to develop a conservation strategy to save them, involving The Prefab Museum, which is delighted to take part and bring its national expertise to help plan their long term future. Prefabs played a crucial role in the rebuilding of Britain after the Second World War and contributed so much to post-war recovery.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Read more in on the BCT <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birminghamconservationtrust.org\/2017\/08\/17\/first-steps-to-secure-future-of-birminghams-post-wwii-living-treasures\/\">website<\/a>\u00a0and in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/midlands-news\/experts-look-preserve-brums-rare-13632959\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham Mail<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Birmingham Mail reports that experts \u2013 including the Birmingham Conservation Trust (BCT) are considering ways to preserve a much-loved row of prefab houses built in Birmingham as temporary accommodation in 1945.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16834,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16832\/revisions\/16834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}