In 2015 Westbury Estate, SW8, was targeted for a new regeneration project by Lambeth council.
Lambeth Council do not seem to have any serious consideration for the current residents, regardless of the opposition to any redevelopment, the Council will bulldoze their way across the Westbury Estate to ruin lives. The Council is proposing that up to 200 units are added to the estate; final approval is due in June 2015 and the disruptive building work could take up to five years to complete. Yet in 2024 the estate is still standing as it was.
This is a photographic investigation of the current condition of and life in the Westbury estate in 2024 spring.
Westbury has 242 homes on a well-laid out and spacious estate with attractive grass and tree-lined areas. It is beloved by its residents because of its feeling of space and quiet; however, these wonderful qualities are obviously not allowed by Lambeth who consider the Westbury Estate to be ripe for plunder and caustic redevelopment.
Many residents in the estate have spent most of their lives there and have a strong sense of community. The phrase “A sense of community” is often used by Lambeth Council in their literature when trying to qualify the redevelopment of Westbury and other estates. Ironically, the destruction of the estates will divide communities, not enhance.
