IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Heygate Street, LONDON, SE17 1FP
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Heygate Street, SE17 1FP by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (384 Images Found)
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Empty block, Heygate Estate
The near derelict estate was awaiting demolition, a controversial decision by the local council as the buildings were structurally sound and 3000 people had to be displaced.
Image: © Robin Webster
Taken: 23 Jul 2011
0.01 miles
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East on Heygate Street, Walworth
The estate, completed in 1974, is to be redeveloped. Demolition is taking place on both sides of the street. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heygate_Estate http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2013/11/look-heygate-estate-whats-wrong-londons-housing
Image: © Robin Stott
Taken: 8 Feb 2014
0.01 miles
3
Sheeted slab of flats for demolition by Heygate Street
The Heygate Estate, completed 1974, is being demolished and redeveloped. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heygate_Estate http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2013/11/look-heygate-estate-whats-wrong-londons-housing
Image: © Robin Stott
Taken: 8 Feb 2014
0.01 miles
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Apartments under construction, Elephant Park, Walworth, London
This is the site of Southwark Council's demolished Heygate estate. An approximately similar view from Walworth Road is Image, taken during demolition. See Image and http://www.elephantpark.co.uk . The branding associates the development with romantic, historic-sounding Elephant and Castle rather than unappealing Walworth despite the latter being an apparently vibrant community that has not yet been gutted. One has to question the sense of a brandname that evokes the hot, dusty savannah – or is it a subliminal appeal to the many people of African and African-American origin in the area?
Image: © Robin Stott
Taken: 21 Sep 2015
0.02 miles
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Demolition contractor?s site entrance to Heygate Estate off Heygate Street, Walworth
The estate, completed in 1974, is to be redeveloped. Demolition is taking place on both sides of the street. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heygate_Estate http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2013/11/look-heygate-estate-whats-wrong-londons-housing
Image: © Robin Stott
Taken: 8 Feb 2014
0.02 miles
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Heygate Estate, Heygate Street (3)
The southern perimeter block, separated from the rest of the estate by Heygate Street.
Either another monument to 1960s idealism doomed by modern tastes (now everything must glitter, concrete's just too grey - boring) and/or a mercenary council, or another concrete hell-hole past its sell-by date. Take your pick. Although planned during the previous decade, the Heygate's 1,200 flats were built in 1970-74. The four vast concrete blocks forming the perimeter are certainly forbidding ("impressive from a distance" wrote Pevsner), but the inside is surprisingly green and the spacious flats meant that for a time it was not an unpopular place to live. Later it fell victim to the usual blights and Southwark Council are, perhaps unnecessarily, demolishing the whole lot. They started earlier this year but it will take several years to finish the job. Old communities will vanish and it seems likely that most of the old occupants will be priced out of the new development.
Image: © Stephen Richards
Taken: 13 Feb 2011
0.03 miles
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Heygate Estate
Buildings due for demolition.
Image: © Malc McDonald
Taken: 10 May 2010
0.03 miles
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Five cranes
The cranes are at a site off Heygate Street. The tallest old building towards the middle is, or was, Newington Library.
Image: © Robin Webster
Taken: 21 Nov 2015
0.03 miles
9
Kingshill, Heygate Estate
Block of 228 vacated flats awaiting demolition.
Image: © Oast House Archive
Taken: 15 Apr 2012
0.03 miles
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Developer?s offices by derelict flats, Heygate Estate by Heygate Street, Walworth
The estate, completed in 1974, is to be redeveloped. Demolition is taking place on both sides of the street. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heygate_Estate http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2013/11/look-heygate-estate-whats-wrong-londons-housing
Image: © Robin Stott
Taken: 8 Feb 2014
0.04 miles