With the 1979 general election giving power to a conservative government led by Thatcher, the

post-war housing programme which had effectively lasted for more than 3 decades, was brought to
an end. This programme had ensured that almost 50 per cent of the population was accommodated
in public-sector homes by the mid-1970s.

Now, with housing departments for local councils disbanded, vast swathes of public land sold off,
and countless social homes transferred to private management and private ownership through the
Right-to scheme, the heavy burden of getting the population housed, was passed over to the
private sector.

Few things are as important as a suitable home, but for many Londoners the type of home they
want, and should reasonably be able to expect, is out of reach. London’s private sector housing has
long demonstrated its inability to deliver the volume of decent, affordable homes needed
desperately by the population, and as the gap between average market rent in London and the rest
of the country reaching a record high, actions must be taken.

In the meantime, the legacies of the planned public housing schemes and the former council
housing stock are under threat of private-sector-led regeneration: unfulfilled promises, lost in
affordable and social homes,

displacement of tenants and local communities,

and imminent gentrification.

This project firstly looks into the process of privatisation of council homes and council
responsibilities of social homes upkeep and maintenance,

And has based its research on the legislative documents and regulations
That leads to an approved regeneration proposal in London
It then looks into the status quo of former council homes in terms of their tenure mixure,
And threats of regeneration that is on the wall
This map serves as a basis of a London wide research into the existing situations of former council
homes estates

A list of existing council estates have been categorise with regard to the urgency