Chapter Seven High-Rise Housing in London C.1940 to C.1970
SIMON PEPPER1
High-rise housing comes high on many lists of post-war British mistakes, and is firmly linked in popular consciousness with those ‘sink estates’ of ‘brutal high-rise towers’ which in early 2016 yet another Prime Ministerial initiative promised to remove.2 At the same time, London in 2016 sees unprecedented numbers of high residential blocks in various stages of planning and construction.3 Although now overwhelmingly directed at the private sector, this latest high-rise construction boom not only prompts questions which historians cannot possibly answer about the future of high flats, but draws attention to the relatively recent and often troubled past of this form of housing. ...
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