Lancaster West Estate
Housing estate in North Kensington, London / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Lancaster Road (West) Estate is a housing estate in North Kensington, west London.
It is in an area known as Notting Dale[1] which experienced V-2 bombing during the Second World War.[2] It was built as municipal housing as part of the slum clearances of the 1960s.[1]
The estate was designed in 1963-4 as part of a major Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea redevelopment scheme designed by architects Clifford Wearden and Peter Deakins but was later much modified and reduced in scale and ambition.[3] It is immediately east of Latimer Road tube station. It opened in the mid 1970s, and was composed of one tower block (Grenfell Tower) of 23 stories[4] and 900 other units. In the early hours of 14 June 2017, the Grenfell Tower caught fire, resulting in large loss of life.