Protesters stage sit-in demo at Clockwork Orange estate over gentrification and 'art washing'

Lesnes estate became the dystopian backdrop to A Clockwork Orange - (Warner Bros)

Protesters have staged a sit-in demonstration at the brutalist London estate where Stanley Kubrick’s Clockwork Orange was filmed, claiming that art washing is being used to put “a band-aid on a bullet wound.”

A group of residents occupied the Lakeside Centre in Thamesmead as neighbours continue to battle against plans for a huge regeneration of the area.