Lancaster West Estate

Lancaster West Estate is a housing estate in North Kensington, west London.

It is in an area known as Notting Dale which had experienced V-2 bombing during the Second World War. It was built as municipal housing as part of the slum clearances of the 1960s,

The estate was designed in 1967 as part of a major Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea redevelopment scheme. It is immediately east of Latimer Road tube station. It opened in the mid 1970s, and was composed of one tower block (Grenfell Tower) of 23 stories and 900 other units. In the early hours of 14 June 2017, the Grenfell Tower caught fire, resulting in large loss of life.

The plot occupied by the Lancaster West Estate was created by a Slum Clearance Order. Large parts of North Kensington were remodelled to create the Westway. To the west of the overground tube line is the earlier Silchester Estate. Formerly, Silchester Road continued into Clarendon Road and Lancaster Road continued from this six-way junction south-east to Bramley Road, but the lower part has now been renamed Whitchurch Road. The phase 1 of the estate stands on land previously occupied by the following streets:

Grenfell Road was extended to the north of Bomore Road.

To the north of phase 1, and on the original plot is Kensington Aldridge Academy and the Kensington Leisure Centre which replaced the once listed Silchester Road Baths. Further phases took in the land , to the east of Clarendon Road bounded by Lancaster Road, St Marks Road and Cornwall Crescent including Verity Close and Camelford Walk.

The estate is served by two London Underground Stations, Latimer Road station and Ladbroke Grove station.

...
Wikipedia