#excouncil

[modernistliving]

Whittington Estate

Whittington Estate, N19

Peter Tabori, 1972-9

The Whittington Estate was designed by Peter Tabori who trained under Erno Goldfinger during Camden Council’s ‘golden age’ of progressive social-housing development. There are a mix of private ownership and social housing in the estate. 

The estate is well designed and laid out. Some of the upper flats are accessed through a set of stairs and then a walkway which creates an area of open space and deters non-social behaviour. 

There are a total of six parallel terraces which comprises of 271 units. The estate includes: Lulot Gardens, Retcar Place, Sandstone Place and Stoneleigh Terrace. The private units do go on the market once in a while and they get snatched up quickly as the popularity of modernist estates and ex-council homes continue to rise. I have seen the price of a one bedroom flat go for £295,000 in 2013 and then £399,950 in 2015! It is a great investment and this of course entices those cash buyer investors. 

[cesarsea]

People need to stop being bitter over shit that isn't even their problem. I'm sick of beating myself up over why my friends just stopped talking to me or anything. I'm done with that bullshit. The council to me was a brotherhood but I guess Eddie was right, it's just a drinking thing. A drinking thing filled with a bunch of babies that bitch and moan over a person's status in the council just because they do something they don't agree with. The council is becoming the first 9 which was originally supposed to be the opposite of that. I'm thankful for the friends that still talk to me and care that I'm around and the new friends I now have. Done stressing over people that don't care to have me in their life.