I live on the Central Hill Estate, so am able to say quite categorically that this article is scurrilous nonsense. The estate is anything but broken: it is home to a close, safe, thriving community, most of whom love living there. There are indeed many maintenance issues, caused mostly by incompetent management on the part of the council over the years - and it hardly need be said that bad management won’t disappear with the demolition and rebuilding of the estate, in fact it is likely to be exacerbated (ask the residents of Myatts Field, as we have). Worse, the statistics Mr Bennett quotes in his piece are misleading in the extreme, as Lambeth Council’s communications and dealing with residents have been throughout this business. What we have here is a Labour council doing the Conservatives’ work for them. Distinctive and thoughtful as the architecture is, no one lives in Central because they are wealthy, least of all the leaseholders who will nearly all be driven out under Lambeth’s plans, leading to yet further economic cleansing of the area. The likely outcome of all this? That the so-called ‘Regeneration’ programme becomes Lambeth Council’s Iraq. But then, Mr Bennett’s political ambitions probably ensure that he’ll be long gone by the time all this plays out, leaving only the people of Lambeth to rue his destructive arrogance.