The photograph shows Lynda Edwards and her daughter outside their tower block, in a feature on Pleck flats relating to their community association action.

A terrace of cottages had been renovated by Stourbridge builder David Payne.

The article discusses the misery of residents living in council flats that failed to live up to the expectations promised by planners and modern architects for post-war housing.

The tower block was the first to benefit from a pioneering Dudley Council plan to turn the flats into luxury apartments with a “no children” policy, to reduce vandalism and move families out of high rise blocks. The photograph shows Alice Fellows using a

Walsall Police were helping the Pleck Community Cooperative to turn the property into flats for young people of 16 and over. Brian Bennett is quoted. Councillors Arthur Toon and Norman Matthews are mentioned. The photograph shows Chief Inspector Alan Wilk

Town Council members were calling for the demolition of homes in the Low Hill area due to the rising costs of their modernisation. Councillor Ken Purchase and former mayor Arthur Storer are quoted, and Councillors Jim Carpenter and Duncan Rutherford are m

A block of flats built by Dudley Council in 1978 received a commendation in a new awards scheme run by the Royal Institute of British Architects, The Environment Department, Martha Raybould and the National House Building Council are mentioned. The photog