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The '''Lansbury Estate''' is a historic large council [[housing estate]] in [[Poplar, London|Poplar]] in the [[London Borough of Tower Hamlets]], |
The '''Lansbury Estate''' is a historic large council [[housing estate]] in [[Poplar, London|Poplar]] and [[Bromley-by-Bow]] in the [[London Borough of Tower Hamlets]], and is named after [[George Lansbury]], a [[Metropolitan Borough of Poplar|Poplar]] [[councillor]] and [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] [[Member of Parliament|MP]]. |
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Revision as of 13:02, 24 July 2019
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The Lansbury Estate is a historic large council housing estate in Poplar and Bromley-by-Bow in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, and is named after George Lansbury, a Poplar councillor and Labour Party MP.
History
It is one of the largest such estates in London. It occupies an area bounded by the East India Dock Road to the south, the Docklands Light Railway to the east and the Limehouse Cut canal to the north-west.
Layout of the estate, built on a site badly damaged by bombing during the Second World War, began in 1949. Construction of the estate started shortly before 1951 as part of the Festival of Britain, with Frederick Gibberd's Chrisp Street Market area and the Trinity Independent Chapel. The construction of the housing and other land-uses extended eastwards, with the final phase, at Pigott Street, finished in 1982, near Bartlett Park.
The philosophy of the design was that new development should comprise neighbourhoods, and that within the neighbourhood should be all that a community required – flats, houses, churches, schools, an old people's home, a pedestrianised shopping area and covered market. There should be pubs and open spaces, linked by footways. Traditional materials were used in the construction, such as London stock bricks and Welsh slate to counter the modern architecture.[1]
The architecture critic Lewis Mumford wrote of the Lansbury Estate (1953) "Its design has been based not solely on abstract aesthetic principles, or on the economics of commercial construction, or on the techniques of mass production, but on the social constitution of the community itself, with its diversity of human interests and human needs. Thus the architects and planners have avoided not only the clichés of ´high rise´ building but the dreary prisonlike order that results from forgetting the very purpose of housing and the necessities of neighbourhood living."[2]
English Heritage has recognised the significance of the estate by listing some of the buildings including the SS Mary and Joseph Roman Catholic Church designed by Adrian Gilbert Scott; however, it noted that the estate has suffered considerable neglect, and also some well-meaning but ill-advised modernisation of the facilities within the associated market.[citation needed]
John Betjeman thought highly of the estate, along with the nearby St John's Estate on the Isle of Dogs.[3]
The Lansbury Estate was owned by the GLC and later by Tower Hamlets Council. After a stock transfer in 1998, the property was transferred to Poplar HARCA.[4]
Transport
Trains
Langdon Park DLR station and All Saints DLR station serve the estate. Bromley-by-Bow tube station and Bow Road tube station are the nearest London Underground stations to the area. Limehouse station is the nearest National Rail station.
Buses
London Buses Routes 309 serve the centre of the area. With 15, 115, D6, D7, D8, 277, 135, D3 all serving the edge of the estate.
References
- ^ Museum of London – The Festival of Britain Archived 16 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine accessed 4 Jan 2006
- ^ "East End Urbanity" in "The Highway And The City", 1963
- ^ Betjeman's London 1988
- ^ Crace, John. "Keys to the future". Guardian Newspaper. Retrieved 18 November 2016.
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