I can’t stand listening to middle class people discussing estates like this, they have not got a clue. Weather it was a shit hole or not it was peoples homes and live. The reason these areas end up like they do is because the council deliberately put trouble families and tenants there in the first place
All demolished now. I'm not sad to see it go but I am sad at how the people of the heygate were treated especially lease holders which lendlease took the utter piss with.
Funny how even a place like that has bigger rooms better materials than the nanoscopic, plasterboard and filler rooms a £200K town flat has. Oh the decline in standards, what sweet money you make!.
I lived on this estate for nearly 6 years... It wasn't actually too bad and I had some good friends and neighbors! Was glad when I was moved though as I was on the 9th floor... Me and my daughter went back a few times to see it, once they started to shut it down for redevelopment
Do you have the information on who created this report, as I would like to use some of the quotes within it a dissertation I am currently writing about the situation at the Heygate.
It’s been gone for years now, replaced by expensive (unaffordable to most of those who lived on the old estate) apartments, catered to those who aren’t even from London
Definitely the wrong decision, although it wasn’t by mistake, the council deliberately sold the estate to property developers, simply to try and make the area less deprived by forcing the poor, council tenants out and being in new, non-local, wealthy residents. Blatant gentrification
What an absolute carzy. Just a breeding ground for crime like the Thamesmead and Ferrier. Too big and nowhere near looked after as much. Thing is they knock it down and put poorly built new build crappy homes with 4 times more people on there where can can hear each other cough!
