The Heygate Estate was a large housing estate in Walworth, Southwark, South London, comprising 1,214 homes. The estate was demolished between 2011 and 2014 as part of the urban regeneration of the Elephant & Castle area. [1]

2023年9月11日 · In 2013, bailiffs removed the last tenants living on the Heygate Estate. The estate in Elephant and Castle, south London, had about 1,200 homes, most of them council homes.

2016年9月12日 · Completed in 1974 the Heygate estate embodied the spirit of utopian socialism characteristic of Brutalism. This architecture movement informed most post-war redevelopment and was an attempt to translate an urban ideal into three-dimensional form. The Heygate – in many ways a character in itself – is the film’s main setting and focal point.

2023年9月11日 · Elephant and Castle: What happened to residents of the Heygate Estate? In 2013, bailiffs removed the last tenants living on the Heygate Estate. The estate in Elephant and Castle, south...

In 2014, demolition started on the Heygate estate's 1,212 council homes. Former council leader Peter John was the driving force behind the estate's redevelopment. He described the Heygate and Aylesbury estates as “symbols of inner-city neglect, with crime, antisocial behaviour, health inequalities and unemployment the only things that ...

2011年4月15日 · Work to demolish a notorious south-east London council estate has begun. Most of the residents of the the Heygate Estate, which once housed 3,000 people, started moving out in 2008. Now the...

2014年2月13日 · The last stages of the demolition of an estate in south-east London have begun. The Heygate Estate in Elephant and Castle is being redeveloped by Southwark Council as part of a £1.5bn...

2024年10月3日 · The Heygate Estate was a large housing estate in Walworth, Southwark, South London comprising 1214 homes. The estate was demolished between 2011 and 2014 as part of the urban regeneration of the Elephant and Castle area. Home to more than 3,000 people, it was situated adjacent to Walworth Road and N

2013年11月6日 · Completed in 1974, its 1,200 homes housed more than 3,000 people in spacious, well-lit rooms with all the modern conveniences. Two decades later, its broken lifts, broken lights, piss-soaked corridors and violent crime came to signify everything wrong with the post-war approach to social housing and urban design.

2024年7月1日 · The Heygate Estate walks the well-trodden path of Brutalist buildings constructed with total optimism, falling into disrepair and becoming branded a crime-ridden eyesore and demolished. The huge superblocks that made up the estate bring to mind the dystopian drawings by Ludwig Hilberseimer for his High Rise City (5).