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The council estate, designed with plenty of open space and trees, was prosperous up until the 1950s when the area began to get a reputation due to the economic and social problems of its residents. The officer class who originally lived in the area had begun to be superseded by poorer families from
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and significant structural problems. A consensus continues to grow that it would be cheaper to replace, rather than simply patch-up, a great many houses on the estate. An investment of over £30 million is needed to improve the estate's housing stock and any large-scale re-development is likely to
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as the development partner to redevelop the estate. Barratt Homes demolished the majority of the existing houses and redeveloped the area by building 574 new 'modern energy efficient' homes. In addition to new homes
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and later an isolation hospital and was situated at the heart of the estate (the junction of Swilly Road, renamed North
Prospect Road, and Beacon Park). Not far from here (at 142 Swilly Road) the first bombs of
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announced that it was considering replacing the oldest housing stock on the estate with new housing. An intensive building survey found a good proportion of the houses to suffer from untreatable
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promised "Homes for Heroes" and an improvement on the overcrowded and inadequate living conditions that existed in early twentieth century
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Swilly House had been at the centre of a prosperous country estate. Much of the former mansion was transferred from Swilly, being reconstructed at a site known as
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