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Lancaster West Estate (London)

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Lancaster West Estate is a housing estate in North Kensington, west London.

It is in an area known as Notting Dale which had experienced V-2 bombing during the Second World War. It was built as municipal housing as part of the slum clearances of the 1960s,

The estate was designed in 1967 as part of a major Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea redevelopment scheme. It is immediately east of Latimer Road tube station. It opened in the mid 1970s, and was composed of one tower block (Grenfell Tower) of 23 stories and 900 other units. In the early hours of 14 June 2017, the Grenfell Tower caught fire, resulting in large loss of life.
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Coordinates:   51°30'50"N   -0°12'51"E
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