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A
sink estate is a
British council housing estate characterised by high levels of economic and social deprivation. Such estates are not always high crime areas although there's a strong correlation between crime rates and sink estates in large urban areas.
Thus, the
Harefield estate on the edge of
Southampton was a sink estate in the last quarter of the twentieth century even though its crime rate was significantly lower than that of inner city areas. In London, however, all the no-go areas (such as the estates in
Peckham before its regeneration,
Harlesden or
Gospel Oak) are all sink estates.
The
West Midlands has been home to numerous sink estates, although many of these have been regenerated or are in the process of regeneration. These include
Castle Vale in
Birmingham,
Galton Village in
Smethwick,
Hateley Heath in
West Bromwich,
Low Hill in
Wolverhampton,
Priory Estate in
Dudley,
Chapel Street in
Brierley Hill and
Goscote in
Walsall.
Sink estates in northern England include
Cantril Farm in
Liverpool,
Halton Moor in
Leeds,
Manor Estate in
Sheffield and the now-demolished
Hulme Crescents in
Manchester.
Sink estates were largely created by the '
right to buy' system popularised by the Conservative party after
1980. Council tenants in more popular areas (usually those which included larger properties) were far more likely to buy their property, leaving less popular areas (usually inner-city areas, those with higher crime rates or less attractive housing) under council ownership, exacerbating existing problems and further alienating the people "abandoned" in those areas from wider society. Owner occupiers are traditionally rare in tower blocks of multi-storey flats.
The origin and meaning of the term 'sink estate' is unknown. The phrase came into usage in the
1980s, and was probably a term coined by journalists.
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