Community Lost on the Heygate Estate

Short report on the loss of an entire community at the Elephant & Castle's Heygate estate.

[@markharrington9265]

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

[@Derwent03]

I would love to know where the architect Tim Tinker lives. I'll bet it aint a 60's concrete block.

[@joanne4594]

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.

[@pleaseyourselfsir]

@joanne , I agree , absolutely disgusting behaviour from Southwark Council . 🧐🇬🇧🤔😡

[@Finggy]

Same happened to us in East London, lease holders were pretty much barged out.

[@infinitesimotel]

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!.

[@vanessawilliamson8425]

I lived on the heygate when i was little

[@misfit2022]

Depends what is classed as “affordable” . I spent a lot of time on the Aylesbury which had a similar reputation but I never had any problems.

[@petermillist3779]

Southwark Labour Council - totally useless. Put up with them for 40 years!

[@rubiccube8953]

Lots of needles in the stairwells

[@2727rickyd]

Now it's a parkour haven, if you consider that anti social, you're insane.

[@manofweed1]

'Community' ?......................Ha,ha,ha. Lost around 1968 love !

[@ang-ela]

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

[@SKY-jv9ue]

WOW! And I thought that all England was like Dowton Abbey!

[@lobbymccawker2083]

Can we get the Council to list the building so it doesn't get knocked down?

[@Sabotaz80xx]

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

[@lobbymccawker2083]

@@Sabotaz80xx That seems a huge mistake. Why didn't the Council list the building?

[@Sabotaz80xx]

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

[@tombucknall7829]

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.

[@DarrenHarrison7160]

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!

[@esssexboy]

Reminds me a bit of Chingford Hall Estate that too had some pretty rough council blocks in the 80s