Question: what were the goals of urban renewal following world war ii

title: Urban renewal
text: Slum clearance began with the Rochester Buildings , on the corner of Old Pye Street and Perkin 's Rent , which were built in 1862 by the merchant William Gibbs . They are one of the earliest large - scale philanthropic housing developments in London . The Rochester Buildings were sold to the Peabody Trust in 1877 and later become known as Blocks A to D of the Old Perkin 's Rents Estate . Angela Burdett - Coutts , 1st Baroness Burdett - Coutts funded an experimental social housing estate , among the first of its kind , on the corner of Columbia Road and Old Pye Street ( now demolished ) . In 1869 the Peabody Trust built one of its first housing estates at Brewer 's Green , between Victoria Street and St. James 's Park . What remained of the Devil 's Acre on the other side of Victoria Street was cleared and further Peabody estates were built after the Cross Act of 1875 .