Lansbury Estate is a 1950s London County Council developed estate near the South Bank Centre in London. Layout of the estate, built on a site badly damaged by bombing during the Second World War, started in 1949 and construction of the estate started shortly before 1951 as part of the Festival of Britain, with the Chrisp Street Market area and the Trinity Independent Chapel of London. The construction of the housing...
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Lansbury Estate is a 1950s London County Council developed estate near the South Bank Centre in London. Layout of the estate, built on a site badly damaged by bombing during the Second World War, started in 1949 and construction of the estate started shortly before 1951 as part of the Festival of Britain, with the Chrisp Street Market area and the Trinity Independent Chapel of London. The construction of the housing and other land-uses extended eastwards, with the final phase, at Pigott Street, finished in 1982, near Bartlett Park.
The philosophy of the design was that new development should comprise neighbourhoods, and that within the neighbourhood should be all that a community required - flats, houses, churches, schools, an old people's home, a pedestrianised shopping area and covered market. There should be pubs and open spaces, linked by footways. Traditional materials were used in the construction, such as London stock bricks and Welsh slate to counter the modern architecture.
