The Basingstoke Housing Scheme aimed to construct additional houses to deal with an increasing population. This is reflective of the wider national policy of increasing the number of council homes following the end of the First World War with the prime minister David Lloyd George (1916-1922) using the slogan: [homes] 'fit for heroes' to describe this campaign. Given the economic impact of the war, private developers were faced with a daunting prospect that the value of newly built homes would decline in a few years making the housing market unsustainable. In response, the government set about implementing new policies (The Addison Act 1918) and subsidising construction to enable new homes to be built and keep people working. Lastly, Thomas Raffles Davison (1853-1937), was a well-known architectural illustrator who had previously worked on the Stornoway Town Improvement Scheme, 1920. Davison's work featured in the British Architect and Northern Engineer, which merged with The Builder in 1919.
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