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Robin May wrote:
"John Rowland" wrote the
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The sort of regeneration you are describing is a much more
expensive and disruptive process that involves demolishing all of
the large blocks of flats and replacing them with houses and small
blocks of 6 flats or so, with lots of new dead end roads. This is
being done on the periphery of the GP estate and will presumably
spread to the core. I don't know how successful it will be in the
long term - a resident of the similar new estate built on the site
of the old Lordship Lane Lido in Tottenham told me "it was
beautiful when we moved in, but it's heartbreaking to see what
some of the residents have done to it."

I have a friend who lives in an estate in Bow that is being threatened
with the same kind of treatment. His view is that it's stupid because
they'll do up the houses and knock down the tower blocks, then move the
same people back in. They'll treat it exactly as they treated it before
it was done up and it'll soon end up exactly as it always was.

This is not my experience. In my ward there are two council estates
built almost opposite each other within a few years in the 1970s,
one of which was well designed and the other of which was very badly
designed. Both were populated by people from the Westminster City
Council housing list. The well-designed estate has a consistently
low crime rate and very little vandalism; the badly-designed one has
lots of crime and anti-social behaviour.

Look also at the sudden change in the Trellick Tower caused by the
employment of a full-time concierge.

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