Category: Council Housing
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Top Boy is a Hackney story at heart, even though its fictional Summerhouse Estate has been assembled from real estates and streets across London. Behind the drugs, violence and rivalries, the series became an unusually sharp portrait of East London, its communities, inequalities, changing streets and the pressures created when an old neighbourhood becomes desirable…
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History and future plans for Marian Court in Homerton, a post-war Hackney housing estate that stood for more than 60 years. Built to tackle London’s housing shortage after the Second World War, Marian Court reflected the changing priorities of social housing in Hackney and is now being replaced as part of a major redevelopment that…
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With the decline of certain industries – particularly the chemical and dye works, rubber and plastics manufacturing, food processing and the network of small-scale workshops that once defined the area – Hackney Wick experienced a significant loss of population. Firms such as E. W. Cook & Company (a 19th-century chemical manufacturer) had historically capitalised on…