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South West I & II (1958 – 1962)
![Three bedroom semi-detached cantilever house on Avon Road [side on view], (3C1), SW I Area.](https://peterleehistory.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Three-bedroom-semi-detached-cantilevar-house-on-Avon-Road2.jpg)
![Dart Road [south] (3CG), SW II Area.](https://peterleehistory.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Dart-Road-SWII-Area.jpg)
![Dart Road [south] (3CG, 2B/3B), SW II Area, c 1961/62.](https://peterleehistory.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Dart-Road-SWII-Area_nt_pe7_5_5_2_64.jpg)
![Dart Road [south] (3CG, 2B/3B), SW II Area, c 1961/62.](https://peterleehistory.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Dart-Road-SWII-Area-c1962_cl0005_1799.jpg)
![Dart Road [south] (3CG, 2B/3B), SW II Area, c 1961/62.](https://peterleehistory.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Dart-Road-SWII-Area-c1962_d_cl0005_1796.jpg)
Layout plan for the SW I & II Area, June 1960.
Aerial view of the SW I, II & IV Areas.
Aerial view of the SW I & IV Areas.
In the first phase of the South West Area, Victor Pasmore (Consulting Director of Urban Design) Frank Dixon (Building Architect) and Peter Daniels (Landscape Architect) settled upon an orthogonal layout system (roads and houses set at right angles to form a grid pattern).
The layout plan for the South West I & II Areas shows that there were 12 different house types amongst the 269 properties.
| Type | Description | Number |
| 2B | 2 bedroom semi detached | 60 |
| 2F1 | 3 story one bedroom flats (butterfly roof) | 5 |
| 2P | 2 bedroom semi detached | 16 |
| 3B | 3 bedroom semi detached | 81 |
| 3C | 3 bedroom cantilever | 1 |
| 3C1 | 3 bedroom cantilever with one bedroom flat | 5 |
| 3CG | 3 bedroom cantilever with garage | 4 |
| 3G | 3 bedroom terrace with garage | 30 |
| 3T | 3 bedroom terrace | 8 |
| 4H | 4 bedroom detached | 21 |
| 4G | 4 bedroom terrace with garage | 16 |
| OP | Old people’s bungalows | 22 |
Four bedroom detached houses on Avon Road (4H), SW I Area.
Three bedroom semi-detached house on Southway (3B), SW I Area.
Avon Road looking from the direction of Passfield Way, SW I Area (2F1, 3C1, 3B) c1961.
Teign Close / Thames Road (3C & 4G), SW I Area.
Screen partition on Thames Road, SW I Area.
Landscape Architect Peter Daniels designed play features for two toddlers play areas in phase I & II. None of these have survived and no photographic record of them has thus far come to light. Though the design of this screen is reminiscent of the constructionist wall reliefs made by Victor Pasmore, it may well be the work of Daniels.
Dart Road [south] (3CG, 2B/3B), SW II Area, c 1961/62.
Dart Road [south] (3CG, 2B/3B), SW II Area, c 1961/62.
Dart Road [south] (3CG), SW II Area.
Tamar Close / Thames Road (3C, 4G), SW II Area, c 1962.
Helford Road (3G, 4G), SW II Area, 1967.