Streets in the Sky, Spon End
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Streets in the Sky, Spon End
Image: © A J Paxton Taken: 1 Oct 2022
A concrete walkway connects the upper rows of two-storey maisonettes in the four storey blocks of Milestone House, Kerry's House & Trafalgar House in Spon End, Coventry. The maisonettes were built in the 1960s by the City Architect's Department under Arthur Ling as part of a programme of slum clearance; see Image] for further information. The maisonettes are themselves now to be demolished and replaced in a programme beginning in 2023, as reported by the Coventry Society https://news.coventrysociety.org.uk/2022/05/16/redevelopment-of-spon-end/ . Many are now empty and boarded up, though others are still lived-in. For the unhappy history of 'streets in the sky' see the Urban Idiot writing for the Academy of Urbanism https://www.academyofurbanism.org.uk/streets-in-the-sky-the-urban-idiot/ . Spon End is at least on a smaller scale than the vast blocks of Park Hill in Sheffield and Hulme in Manchester.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.40741
Longitude
-1.522207