Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Friday 14 November 1919

Thurnscoe’s Housing Policy.

Thurnscoe Urban Council are endeavouring to surmount the housing difficulties by obtaining labour locally.

At last night’s meeting of the Council it was decided to employ direct labour in the erection of further houses under their housing scheme.

Mr. M. Noakes, the chairman of the Council, said they had had many delays in past years owing to “red tape,” that they felt it was time they “got something done in the way of actual erection.

The new policy would not affect the existing contracts, but would apply only to additional 24 houses which were proposed erected