Weston Rise Estate
- Title
- Weston Rise Estate
- Genre
- News report; Interview
- TX Date
- 10 Mar 1996
- Year of production
- 1996
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- Duration
- 00:07:15
- Description
- Lisa Costello reports on accusations of gross incompetence levelled at Islington Council in London by a group of council tenants living on the 1960s Weston Rise Estate; lack of security with improvements postponed several times; and problems of drug dealers and prostitutes coming from nearby Kings Cross area. Speaks to tenant Peter Byfield and tenants’ manager Bob Edwards.
- Contributors
- Lisa Costello; Peter Byfield; Bob Edwards
- Keywords
- London; Local authorities; Council housing; Prostitution; Islington; Illegal drugs; Security; Weston Rise Estate
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