This year, the Becontree Estate in east London turns 100 years old. To celebrate the largest council estate in the UK, Inside Housing went round to see what makes the estate so special #UKhousing ...

But thanks to chancellor Lloyd George's revolutionary scheme to make "homes fit for heroes", Becontree - the first and largest council estate in the UK - made those fantasies a reality.

Built on an unprecedented scale, the Becontree estate is a cottage estate in east London with a radical past rooted in Garden Cities principles. The Becontree estate was once described as the largest ...

Instead, he opted to stay in the East End, and visit the Becontree estate – Britain’s first council estate, built for the working-class heroes of World War I. An experiment in modern living ...

The centenary of an east London housing estate billed as the largest ever when it was built after the First World War is to be marked with a series of events. Becontree in Dagenham was built for ...

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Butcher Lee Hawkins, 56, has worked on the estate for four decades. The Becontree accounts for almost half of Barking and Dagenham’s population, yet it has seen fewer Covid-related fatalities ...

Archio has completed a new type of villa within the Becontree Estate for the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham’s in-house regeneration company The design, part of an overall plan to create more ...

In partnership with Create London and London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, RIBA delivered a year long programme of artistic and architectural commissions, events, learning programmes and ...

This year, the Becontree Estate in east London turns 100 years old. To celebrate the largest council estate in the UK, Inside Housing went round to see what makes the estate so special #UKhousing ...

In 1931, when Indian civil rights hero Mahatma Gandhi visited England, he was offered a suite at the Savoy. Instead, he opted to stay in the East End, and visit the Becontree esta ...