JennyOwen

By JennyOwen

Park Hill Flats

Famous, infamous, controversial: Park Hill Flats is a 'brutalist' complex, built between the late 1950s and the beginning of the 1960s.
It's Grade II listed now, a fact welcomed by some and ridiculed by others.
In the early days it was seen as a welcome change from the cramped back-to-back terraces that it replaced.  Then came a period of neglect and sink estate status, culminating in near-dereliction.  Now it's being renovated, gradually: a first phase of quite upmarket flats has been followed by a second and more modest phase. A final section of the huge estate still awaits rescue. 
So my main shows the still-empty part, my 'dereliction' image. The extra shows part of the second phase of redevelopment, along with part of an art installation that documents some thoughts from residents.
There's an interesting short film about it all here: We Were Never Derelict

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