Social Essays

The People Of The Excalibur Estate, 1946 to 2008. Jim



So its now time for the tenants and residents to fight again. There campaign to save the estate has been featured in the media all over the world.
One of the tenants, Jim Blackender has been vocal in the campaign to save the estate. He writes:
As tenants we are trying to highlight the difficulties we are having trying to save our historic estate from the bulldozers
The Decent Homes Standard has given councils the golden opportunity to write off vast amounts of housing stock as non decent and transfer their stocks to housing associations who build in its place high density housing estates.

The Excalibur Prefab Estate is the largest of its kind now left in Europe. Europe values its war time history, we on the estate think it’s time we did too.


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