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The Bourne Estate is the third of the three key estates built by the London County
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In 2013 planning permission was granted for a £14 million regeneration of the Bourne Estate. Matthew Lloyd
Architects’ scheme, developed with Camden Council and Tibbalds Planning and Urban Design, provides 75 new homes across two mixed tenure blocks. Landscaping is to be improved across the southern
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residential blocks and sports and play facilities were added to this land, with Mawson
Building to the South and Gooch Building to the southwest on the former site of Thanksgiving Model Building. A major redevelopment of this part of the estate is planned by Camden Council to take place 2013–16,
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and demolished. To the southwest of the estate was
Thanksgiving Model Buildings, built in 1850 for the 'Society for Improving the Conditions of the Labouring Classes', this block consisted of two four-storey buildings providing accommodation for 20 families and 128 single women. Also badly
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architecture. These new blocks will be mixed private and social housing. Higgins
Construction have been appointed to carry out this scheme. The works started in May 2014 and they are scheduled to be completed in August 2016.
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The surrounding streets were laid out in the 17th century on an intersecting grid pattern from north to south, east to west. Portpool Lane is part of the estate itself and derives its name from the old manor of
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The estate consists of a number of residential blocks which enclose a number of quiet shady courtyards containing mature trees, mostly
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in Vienna immediately after the First World War. The
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The estate was originally bounded at its southern edge by factories and industrial buildings that were damaged during the
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including the demolition of the unlisted Mawson
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half of the estate with re-ordered public realm, sports and playspaces by Dally
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bomb-damaged in 1943 during the Blitz, the buildings were subsequently demolished.
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