Locksley Estate
Locksley Estate is a council housing estate in Limehouse, London now owned by the London Borough of Tower Hamlets (LBTH), although initially built by the London County Council (LCC).
The original estate consists of 21 blocks that were built as part of the "Stepney-Poplar Reconstruction Area". This was an area in the East End of some 1500 acres, much of which had been destroyed by enemy bombing during the Second World War. The part of the Estate around Dora Street had been destroyed by a V1, known by Londoners as a doodlebug in 1944.
After the demise of the LCC in 1965, the estate was owned and managed by the Greater London Council (GLC), until 1985, when it transferred to LBTH just prior to the abolition of the GLC.
Most of the blocks on the estate are named after commuter towns circling Greater London.
A large number of homes the estate have been bought by by tenants under the Right to Buy. Many of these homes have been sold on and as a result there is a bouyant private rented sector, with a resulting transitory population.