Had a browse on the old Hendon Airdrome site what got built on in the 70s in N London, most of the council housing in the area have gone or boarded up and a vast new estate as appeared with sky high prices, what happens to folk when an area gets gentrified in London, do folk get fucked off to Stoke or Luton ?  The area looks pretty sterile anyway with the odd wine bar and Tesco express built into the high rise buildings.

They get moved out, just like the Elephant & Castle area of London moved out to Northampton. The place is full of West Ham fans and even the cobblers play in WHU colours. It's just like what we do in Bolton, when we regenerate a council run area and improve it we ship the undesirables out to outer areas like Blackrod and neighbouring Bolton postcodes, it's quite normal.

What areas in Bolton have been regenerated???

 

The only place I know like this is Chimney Pot Park in Salford, where they bought it all up cheap, turned them into yuppie houses and sold them at top dollar.

What areas in Bolton have been regenerated???

 

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Some bloke on Le Gendre Street recently got a new front door and landscaped his garden. Does that count?

Some bloke on Le Gendre Street recently got a new front door and landscaped his garden. Does that count?

they did a lot in bolton in the 80s new front and back walls and gates

Some bloke on Le Gendre Street recently got a new front door and landscaped his garden. Does that count?

All that estate is having new kitchens and bathrooms, tiled, decorated, shower, floors etc now. Quite a few are having the roofs done too.

Some bloke on Le Gendre Street recently got a new front door and landscaped his garden. Does that count?

 

Has he got a sofa in the garden?

Alfresco terrace garden, as well call them in TM.

Most of Chorley old road and the adjoining side streets have all had the fronts rebuilt

Most of Chorley old road and the adjoining side streets have all had the fronts rebuilt

the new double glazed windows at the bottom end are a great juxtaposition to the nets which are 6" shy of the window ledge or the sheets instead of curtains

Edited July 2, 201412 yr by no balls

Folk who have nets are fucking weirdos

They're bulldozing a load of land off Blackburn road and building a new community development if that counts

They're bulldozing a load of land off Blackburn road 

 

It's a start.

What areas in Bolton have been regenerated???

 

The only place I know like this is Chimney Pot Park in Salford, where they bought it all up cheap, turned them into yuppie houses and sold them at top dollar.

Long time ago but little hulton was built for people who were cleared from central Salford when the terraced houses were razed and the tower blocks went up. Not quite gentrification though haha

 

Everyone once in a while lh gets a smattering of folk moved out from Salford, the amblecote estate in the early 80s being a big example, but it still happens now when a bit of Salford is cleared. I guess they get spread around the city.

 

Looks like a fair few flats are going up on amblecote again (after most if not all the flats on the estate were demolished) I wouldn't be surprised if a few bell ends from broughton or somewhere (africa?) end up housed there.

 

I don't think that many people still lived in 'chimney pot park' anyway by the end did they?

 

The places in London needed sorting, the rockingham estate in elephant and castle was a god forsaken shithole not fit for human habitation. Far better to clean it up than leave it be, in fear of being accused of pushing 'normal' folk out

Oh and to the op - I bet a lot of people in those London flats owned the place and got a handsome payoff.

 

If you've been in a London council flat for years and haven't exercised right to buy you are a mug... I know loads of people who bought theirs for a song, sold up for 400k, and fucked off to Essex, it's a fucking scandal.

Oh and to the op - I bet a lot of people in those London flats owned the place and got a handsome payoff.

 

If you've been in a London council flat for years and haven't exercised right to buy you are a mug... I know loads of people who bought theirs for a song, sold up for 400k, and fucked off to Essex, it's a fucking scandal.

Right to buy - if that wasn't a short sighted fuck up of epic proportions I don't know what is. That said, hindsight is a wonderful thing.

Had a West Ham mate who lived near Upton Park and he sold up and buggered off to Essex in 77, he must be kicking himself now. He lived in a nice house in a neat terraced street but the area started changing.