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The location: Binsey Walk, Thamesmead. Discover Time Out original video The scene: In a sinister, dystopian London, antisocial delinquent Alex (Malcolm McDowell) has had it with his gang of.


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Southmere Village Phase 2 is the renamed Binsey Walk, and it was supposed to start on site in March 2021. Of course there's been the pandemic, but Peabody have yet to even consult to any great degree let alone reveal detail plans and submit them before approval. General massing plan along Harrow Manorway


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Thamesmead / ˈtɛmzmiːd / is an area of south-east London, England, straddling the border between the Royal Borough of Greenwich and the London Borough of Bexley. It is located 11 miles (18 km) east of Charing Cross, north-east of Woolwich and west of Erith.


Southmere Lake and Binsey Walk, Thamesmead. © Plemper 1976. London, London life

He first moved to Thamesmead in the 90s, into a flat on Binsey Walk, the lakeside terrace made famous by a watery tussle in A Clockwork Orange, which was sadly bulldozed in 2019. "I really.


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Binsey Walk, Thamesmead: The Droogs' stomping ground Photo by Martin Hearn Thamesmead is a large, 1960s concrete housing estate built on old marshland near Woolwich. Kubrick used the sprawling estate as 'Flat Block Marina', where Alex stomps around with his fellow Droogs.


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The main sequence of Kubrick's filming took place behind Binsey Walk and a large gap now exists where the buildings once curved around the marina's water. All of the entranceways are closed off, with only one opening left where the bins were once kept, now occupied by a few homeless people.


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Binsey Walk Housing at Binsey Walk included some of the most iconic Thamesmead homes before being pulled down in 2019 by Peabody. I visited mid-way through demolition to capture the changing scene. Former buildings on site - taken in 2019 Replacement buildings see mid-rise blocks lining Southmere lake and what to be appears some odd massing.


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Next to Southmere, on the site of the former Binsey Walk development, is the second phase of the South Thamesmead regeneration. The site is part of the Abbey Wood and South Thamesmead Housing Zone. We were granted outline planning permission in 2016 for 329 new homes (42% of which will be affordable).


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Enjoy the great outdoors. Thamesmead has a remarkable landscape, including great parks, wild open spaces, beautiful canals and lakes. It's the perfect place to get closer to nature and escape the busyness of city life.


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Vague plans for Binsey walk all there is after years of land ownership. This being Peabody, there's no submitted plan for housing on the neighbouring plot though they flattened the area at Binsey Walk in 2019. Homes to north demolished in June 2019. There's not even any final design drawn up - so it will be years before any work begins.


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Lakeside housing, Binsey Walk, Southmere, Thamesmead, Greenwich, London RIBA pix

In the mid-1960s, a vast concrete housing estate began to rise out of a neglected marshland on the south bank of the River Thames. Headed by the Greater London Council (GLC), the scheme was seen as visionary; Thamesmead would provide a marina-esque lifestyle with plenty of greenery, and wide walkways that connected housing with schools and local amenities, all set within striking brutalist.


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The area currently being taken down is Binsey Walk. Homes here offered great views over Southmere Lake. Upon completion these buildings had 10,000 visitors arrive in just one year from 30 countries to take a look around at the future. In place of these long blighted homes will be Peabody's new blocks.


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Today the flats on Binsey Walk are set to be demolished to make way for new housing, but the concrete walkways function as a brilliant stage. Perched on a grassy hill opposite, the audience can.


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After the abolition of the GLC, the estate's ownership trans­ferred to a trust company and the founders' wishful vision of a futur­istic community has largely been abandoned in favour of tradi­tional British suburban housebuilding. Forecasts of Thamesmead's final popu­la­tion have halved from the original target of 100,000.


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A little special video blog where I have finally visited Binsey Walk in Thamesmead London where A Clockwork Orange was filmed back in 1971. Felt great to fin.

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