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(Redirected from Shanklin Estate) Housing estate in Sutton, London

51°20′51″N 0°11′47″W / 51.3476°N 0.1964°W / 51.3476; -0.1964 Shanklin Village, also known as the Shanklin Estate or Shanklin Village Estate is a council housing estate in Sutton, South London, sited between Brighton Road and the Epsom Downs Branch railway line. It was built in the late 1960s to replace a number of prefabricated buildings, purpose-built after the second World War. The main road is Hulverston Close.

The estate consists of 424 deck-access flats and maisonettes built to a then-innovative layout and a few terraced houses. The southern part of the site is a large public open space known as Belmont Park.

References

  1. "Sutton Housing Partnership" (PDF). Suttonhousingpartnership.org.uk. Retrieved 3 November 2013.
  2. ^ "Belmont, Sutton". Hidden-london.com. Retrieved 3 November 2013.
  3. ^ "History of our Area". Belmont & South Cheam Residents' Association. Retrieved 3 November 2013.


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