TQ4175 : Kidbrooke Village: new phase starting
taken 11 years ago, near to Kidbrooke, Greenwich, England
It is difficult to compare old photos with new in this estate with great precision, as the whole area is being completely transformed, but this is roughly the area between Cambert Way and Romero Square in the former Kidbrooke Estate. See TQ4175 : Ferrier Estate, Kidbrooke for a view in nearly the same location barely five years earlier.
The Ferrier was a large council housing estate in Kidbrooke, Greenwich Borough, London. It was built in the late 1960s and early 1970s, mainly on what had been an RAF training and logistics base.
The housing - a mixture of 6-storey medium-rise and 12-storey high-rise blocks, was concrete panel construction, quick to erect but not of high quality. By the 1990s it had become known as a "sink" estate with high levels of crime.
From 1999, regeneration of the estate as a mixed (private/social) development by the council in partnership with private developers was planned. Demolition started in 2010 and occupation of new housing commenced in 2011, but the whole project, renamed "Kidbrooke Village", will take several years.
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- Grid Square
- TQ4175, 100 images (more nearby 🔍)
- Photographer
- Stephen Craven (more nearby)
- Date Taken
- Saturday, 24 January, 2015 (more nearby)
- Submitted
- Sunday, 25 January, 2015
- Subject Location
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OSGB36:
TQ 411 752 [100m precision]
WGS84: 51:27.4966N 0:1.8167E - Camera Location
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OSGB36: TQ 409 751
- View Direction
- East-northeast (about 67 degrees)
