Myatt's Fields South Estate

Myatt's Fields South is a social housing estate located between Brixton Road and Camberwell New Road in South London. It is on land that once formed part of the Lambeth Wick estate.[1]

Myatt's Fields South Estate
Myatt's Fields South Estate
General information
LocationMyatt's Fields South, Lambeth, London
Coordinates51.471528°N 0.110015°W / 51.471528; -0.110015
Area11.20 acres (4.48 ha)
No. of units354
Construction
ArchitectTed Hollamby, Roger Westman
AuthorityLondon Borough of Lambeth

Myatt's Fields North and South estates were built between 1970 and 1984 with 470 homes on the North and 324 on the South.[2]

In recent years it has been the subject of a dispute between residents and Lambeth Council, who have tried to replace the boiler system that serves Myatt's Field South, and Myatt's Field North estate, which has since been redeveloped as Oval Quarter.[3][4][5]

History

The area to the West of Myatt's Fields Park suffered considerable bomb damage during the Second World War, with the area of Mostyn road being extensively damaged and a V2 rocket levelling buildings on Lothian Road where it meets Calais Street.[6]

The estate was designed by Lambeth Council by a team of architects led by Roger Westman and Ted Hollamby.[7] Hollamby had been employed as senior architect at the London County Council from 1949 to 1962, where he led the design of the Brandon Estate in Kennington.[8] He then left to work at London borough of Lambeth, where he was director of architecture, planning and development from 1969 to 1981, and for whom he designed Myatt's Fields South and North. Hollamby also designed Cressingham Gardens and Central Hill Estate, both of which are currently proposed for redevelopment.[9][10]

Description

The estate is built of slate and brick blocks over parking undercrofts.[2] It is formed of 354 dwellings, including 8 designed for severely disabled people, and 15 refurbished Victorian houses on Loughborough Road.[11] The new build houses cater for a mixture of housing types, with a ring of apartments above garages at the perimeter of the estate, and town houses and terraces arranged around pedestrian footpaths inside.[12] These are a maximum of 3 storeys high, with living rooms and bedrooms facing away from the noise of the surrounding roads. The green spaces within the estate were intended to form part of a "parkway" of public open space parallel to Brixton Road.[11]

Church on Mostyn Road prior to the construction of the estate.

Ted Hollamby contracted Edmund Happold from Ove Arup & Partners to advise on structural engineering, contributing to the development of Central Hill estate, West Norwood Library and the subterranean boiler house at Myatt's Fields which was designed to heat both North and South Myatt's Fields estates.[13] The boiler house has a design that led to it being called 'HMS Hollamby', and more recently, 'The Submarine'. The North part of Myatt's Fields estate was redeveloped in 2013–15, as its design was believed to contribute to anti-social behaviour, and the garage space was underused as a result of car ownership being less than predicted in the 1970s.[2]

  • Interior of Myatt's Fields South Estate
    Interior of Myatt's Fields South Estate
  • Interior of Myatt's Fields South Estate
    Interior of Myatt's Fields South Estate
  • Interior of Myatt's Fields South Estate
    Interior of Myatt's Fields South Estate

See also

Notes
  1. "Brixton: Lambeth Wick estate | British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
  2. Bird, Edmund; Price, Fiona (2015). Lambeth Architecture 1965-99. London: Lambeth Archives and Lambeth Local History Forum. p. 109. ISBN 9780992669539.
  3. "Redeveloped into Fuel Poverty: The Story of Myatts Field North". Novara Media. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
  4. Urban, Mike (18 March 2016). "Lambeth pensioners, tenants and supporters take action against Local Government cuts with 'Warm-Up' inside Brixton Tate Library". Brixton Buzz news, features and listings for Brixton, London. Retrieved 4 May 2017.
  5. Williams, Zoe (21 July 2017). "The real cost of regeneration". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  6. Ward, Laurence (2015). London County Council Bomb Damage Maps (1939-1945). Latvia: Thames & Hudson Ltd. p. 157. ISBN 978-0-500-51825-0.
  7. Franklin, Geraint; Harwood, Elain (2014). English Heritage: Research Report Series no. 2–2014. English Heritage. ISSN 2046-9799.
  8. "Edward Hollamby". The Guardian. 23 January 2000. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
  9. "Cressingham Gardens regeneration approved in High Court | News | Inside Housing". www.insidehousing.co.uk. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
  10. Azam, Shuz (15 March 2017). "Lambeth recommends the full rebuilding of Central Hill estate". London News Online. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
  11. Myatts Fields South Phases IVa, V and VI. Lambeth Council. 1974. pp. LBL/BDD/1/92/3.
  12. Orazi, Stefi (14 September 2014). "Modernist Estates". Modernist Estates. Retrieved 3 May 2017.
  13. Franklin / Harwood, Geraint and Elain (2014). HOUSING IN LAMBETH 1965–80 AND ITS NATIONAL CONTEXT - A THEMATIC STUDY. English Heritage. p. 6. ISSN 2046-9799.
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