Burton Manor Conservation Area

In 1926 work commenced on a model village at Burton Manor, by the Hall Engineering Company for their workers at the Stafford based British Reinforced Concrete factory.  The village was designed by Birmingham architect W.G. Green, based on the then fashionable planning ideals of the 'garden city'.  It featured 9 different housing types in a distinctive Arts and Crafts architectural style and laid out in a rigorously planned form. 

The scheme was never completed; only 70 out of a planned 200 houses were built, and none of the community facilities that were to include school, church, cinema and a tennis court.  Nevertheless, the distinctive planned form of the model village and its arts and crafts buildings are still very much in evidence, whilst many original features of the buildings, their boundary walls and outbuildings, still survive 80 years on.

A copy of the conservation area boundary can be viewed here