page_title: Alton Estate
section_title: Alton East
hierarchical_section_title: Alton Estate / Alton East
caption_attribution_description: English: Illustrates new developments in British council housing (public housing) following the Second World War, 1955
context_page_description: The Alton Estate is a large council estate situated in Roehampton, southwest London. One of the largest council estates in the UK, it occupies an extensive area of land west of Roehampton village and runs between the Roehampton Lane through-road and Richmond Park Golf Courses.
  Designed by a London County Council design team led by Rosemary Stjernstedt, the estate is renowned for its mix of low and high-rise modernist architecture consisting of Alton East styled a subtle Scandinavian-influenced vernacular and its slightly later counterpart: Alton West. At Highcliffe Drive on Alton West the LCC essentially retained the Georgian landscape and placed within it five ultra-modern slab blocks: Binley, Winchfield, Dunbridge, Charcot and Denmead Houses, inspired by Le Corbusier's Unite d'Habitation.
  Overall, the estate, which celebrated its 50th Anniversary in 2009, has over 13,000 residents, making it one of the largest in the United Kingdom. The architecture is mainly split between brutalist architecture and its Scandinavian-inspired counterpart.
  Planning for redevelopment of the area is currently under way by Wandsworth Council.
context_section_description: The Alton East Estate consists of point blocks and low-level housing. The design "represents a desire by some architects to formulate a British version of modernism that was more sensitive to context and referenced a traditional vernacular."
caption: West aspect of Eashing Point on the Alton East Estate, 1957
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