Talk:Lancaster West Estate

Latest comment: 7 years ago by ClemRutter in topic Parking a reference


POVs

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This article on a public housing scheme seems loaded with negative POVs (all referenced). This is not how such an estate article should be written. I will move them from the lead into a section called reputation, and we can start to examine them there.--ClemRutter (talk) 10:25, 18 June 2017 (UTC)Reply

It's merely a different reality to you life-experience. User:ClemRutter, why don't you find positive things to say about inner-London housing estates in the Thatcher years? It might take you a while, ind you  :) — O Fortuna semper crescis, aut decrescis 10:30, 18 June 2017 (UTC)Reply
User:Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi. Thats what we must try to do- are you on board to work on Housing Estate articles? There is talk of setting up a wikiproject. Throughout the country the Thatcher era and the downgrading of building standards and the starvation of maintenance funding are all issues to address. Anyway the article needs to be built up as we have done in cottage estate of Cressingham Gardens or even The Meadows, Nottingham.ClemRutter (talk) 11:14, 18 June 2017 (UTC)Reply
@ClemRutter: Yo, those are really great (if not yet Good) articles! I was comparing this more to things like Beaumont Road and Cathall, compared with which this is *major self-indulgence alert* Voltarian prose  :) — O Fortuna semper crescis, aut decrescis 11:28, 18 June 2017 (UTC)Reply

Yep.79.77.207.102 (talk) 14:28, 9 July 2017 (UTC)Reply

Parking a reference

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  • "Kategoria: Architecture". Constantine Gras. Retrieved 27 June 2017. Discussion of typeface and personalities behind Silchester East and West, Lancaster West and More West. Including image

Factual accuracy

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The [[North Kensington]] [[Sports centre]] divided the estate in two.<ref name="Curtis1999">{{cite book|author=Sarah Curtis|title=Children who Break the Law, Or, Everybody Does it|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mxyrbk1t4ZAC&pg=PA169|year=1999|publisher=Waterside Press|isbn=978-1-872870-76-2|pages=169–}}</ref>

Can someone review this sentence I removed. This refers to a situation in 1989. Was the Crime area contiguous to the estate? Was Sarah (p169/170) speaking metaphorically. To me the NKSC is on the extreme top right of the site. Without a reference to actual planning documents or the Slum Clearance Order at the time, I am struggling to ascertain where the northern boundary of the site was. We have one anecdote that talks about the good and bad sides of the estate- that contrasts the finger blocks with a vague elsewhere- but no information. However this contradicts everything else we have.

North Kensington Sports centre is not North Kensington Sports centre so I see that as unhelpful overlink.

I don't have the local knowledge to make a judgement- and cannot justify leaving a waif fact in a lead so I am commenting this out until it has been discussed.

Thanks guys- for all the ce and checking. ClemRutter (talk) 09:30, 24 June 2017 (UTC)Reply