London's population is projected to grow by 9% between 2016 and 2026. New towers could help tackle the shortage of homes
residents, the tower blocks British councils built in the 1950s and 1960s were symbols of post-war aspiration, homes that seemed to offer in all senses the chance to go up in the world. But by the 1980s they were so stigmatised that the Trotter family, of the television comedy “Only Fools and Horses”, dreamed of moving from their high-rise flat in Nelson Mandela House to a proper home with a garden.
At Harlech Tower, paint peels off the walls in a chilly stairwell, adorned in places with mould. The lift doors have developed a habit of reopening as soon as they close. “They’ve been like that a couple of days,” explains Abdullah Ali, a bus driver who lives on the fourth floor. “You just need to push the doors together.” The block is no good for children, he says. His four kids share a bedroom and he worries they might fall out of a window.
Yet Ealing is also in the vanguard of London’s high-rise renaissance. The borough has only two buildings higher than 20 storeys, but 24 more are in the works, the highest percentage rise in London. After a fire at Grenfell Tower in Kensington killed 71 residents in 2017, some pundits predicted the end of the high-rise. Yet building has since gathered pace.
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