Regent Estate is a

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in Hackney located in the

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. The estate is named in reference to the nearby

Regent's Canal Regent's Canal is a canal across an area just north of central London, England. It provides a link from the Paddington Arm of the Grand Union Canal, north-west of Paddington Basin in the west, to the Limehouse Basin and the River Thames in ea ...

, which was commissioned by the Prince Regent who later became King

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. It is adjacent to, but distinct from, the Regents Court Estate.

Housing

The estate comprises

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built in the late 1970s and early 1980s and owned or by the London Borough of Hackney. The estate is a mix of

terraced house A terrace, terraced house ( UK), or townhouse ( US) is a type of medium-density housing which first started in 16th century Europe with a row of joined houses sharing side walls. In the United States and Canada these are sometimes known as row ...

s, purpose built flats in smaller blocks, with 3 large blocks of flats on Broke Walk, Marlborough Avenue and an additional block on Brownlow Road that was included as part of the estate in 2006. As terraced houses have been sold under the

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, this has resulted in a mixed ownership of freeholders, long

leaseholder A leasehold estate is an ownership of a temporary right to hold land or property in which a lessee or a tenant has rights of real property by some form of title from a lessor or landlord. Although a tenant does hold rights to real property, a le ...

s, council tenants and

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tenants.

Facilities

The estate has three community buildings: The Regent Estate Community Centre/Hall, The Regent Estate Pensions Club/Hall and The Regent Estate Community Office. The latter is used by Hackney Homes Cleaning Services. The estate is served by the Ozen Supermarket. The estate houses the

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gallery, based in a shop space which stood shuttered up for over a decade. After petitioning by the Tenants and Residents Association and with the help of Hackney Homes Residents Participation office, and the London Olympics Arts in Derelict Spaces funding the space was turned into a multimedia arts gallery run by Rolemop. Clear Village were then invited to perform a study for the estate and then also took over the management of the shop as Clear Villages first Small Works initiative.

References

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