Hackney: Woodberry Down revisited

Hackney: Woodberry Down revisited

Hackney Council concluded at the end of the last century that it could no longer afford to throw good money after bad at the Woodberry Down estate. The first residents had moved in in 1948 and social housing historian John Boughton tells us that by 1953 there were 6,500 people living in nearly 1,800 council homes there. For a while it was a bit of a showpiece. But you already know what happened next. Within three decades, Woodberry Down’s buildi…