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‘We thought it was Buckingham Palace’
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Dover House Estate, Putney, LCC (1919)
Cottage Estates ‘Homes for Heroes’
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Wilson Grove Estate, Bermondsey
Metropolitan Borough Council (1924)
Cottage Estates
Alfred and
Ada Salter
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White City Estate, LCC (1938)
Tenements
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Mixed DevelopmentSomerford Grove, Hackney Metropolitan Borough Council (1949)
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Neighbourhood Units The Lansbury Estate, Poplar, LCC (1951)
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Spa Green Estate, Finsbury Metropolitan Borough Council (1949)Post-War Flats
Berthold Lubetkin
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Churchill Gardens Estate, City of Westminster (1951)Post-War Flats
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Alton East, Roehampton, LCC (1951)
Architectural Wars
Alton West, Roehampton, LCC (1953)
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Dawson’s Heights, Southwark Borough Council (1972)Multi-Storey Housing
Kate Macintosh
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Chinbrook Estate, Lewisham, LCC (1965)The Small Estate
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Cressingham Gardens (1978)
Low-Rise, High Density
Central Hill (1974)
Lambeth Borough Council
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Alexandra Road Estate (1979)Branch Hill Estate (1978) Whittington Estate (1981)
Camden Borough Council Low-Rise, High Density
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PassivhausGoldsmith Street, Norwich City Council (2018)
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Mixed Communities
‘The key to successful communities is a good mix of
people: tenants, leaseholders and freeholders. The
Pepys Estate was a monolithic concentration of public
housing and it makes sense to break that up a bit and
bring in a different mix of incomes and people with
spending power.’
Pat Hayes, LB Lewisham, Director of Regeneration
You have castrated communities. You have colonies of low income people, living in houses provided by the local authorities, and you have the higher income groups living in their own colonies. This segregation of the different income groups is a wholly evil thing, from a civilised point of view…We should try to introduce what was always the lovely feature of English and Welsh villages, where the doctor, the grocer, the butcher and the farm labourer all lived in the same street – the living tapestry of a mixed community.
Nye Bevan
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Aylesbury Estate, Southwark (1970)
‘Buckingham Palace’
‘The room, the space, the facilities, it was
wonderful. From where we’d come from it was
paradise, a silly thing to say but it really was. We
thought it was Buckingham Palace.’
Gascoyne Estate, Hackney (1948)
‘Coming to the new estate for most of us at that time was like Shangri-La … we thought we was moving into Buckingham Palace.’