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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Jacob Phillips

Residents 'left to rot' next to boarded-up houses as Clockwork Orange estate regeneration stalled

The estate where Clockwork Orange was filmed has been left nearly empty and boarded up - (ES Composite)

Hundreds of residents have been “left to rot” next to boarded-up houses with cockroaches, mice and mould on an estate earmarked for regeneration, residents have complained.

The Lesnes Estate in Thamesmead, part of the brutalist 1960s estate where Stanley Kubrick’s Clockwork Orange was filmed, has become a ghost town with roughly a quarter of residents still living there.

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