Editing Brixton (section)

===Housing estates===
[[File:Loughborough Estate 1.jpg|thumb|The Loughborough Estate in the east of the area]]
Brixton is home to several particularly large [[housing estate]]s: Stockwell Park Estate off Stockwell and Brixton Roads respectively; [[Myatt's Fields South Estate|Myatt's Fields South]] and North off Vassall Road; [[Angell Town]] off Brixton Road on the boundary with Camberwell; Cowley on Cowley and Vassall Roads, Loughborough in the centre of Brixton, Tulse Hill estate, Somerleyton estate and Moorlands Estate, situated off Coldharbour Lane. There are also smaller estates such as Blenheim Gardens, Caldwell Gardens, Church Manor and Hertford. These estates account for a large part of the Brixton residence.<ref name=allinlondon/>

Estates like the Stockwell Park Estate and the Angell Town Estate were originally designed to accommodate high-level walkways which were envisaged to link the whole of Brixton. The ground-floor garages of these estates have proved to be a major security problem.<ref name=autogenerated7>{{cite web |url=http://www.stockwellpark.com/stockwell-park-estate.htm |title=Stockwell Park Estate |website=Stockwellpark.com |access-date=5 December 2012 |archive-date=24 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130524142835/http://www.stockwellpark.com/stockwell-park-estate.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> The Somerleyton Estate is dominated by [[Southwyck House]] (known locally as "Barrier Block"), a large horseshoe-shaped brick and concrete 1970s structure that backs onto Coldharbour Lane. The 176-apartment block was originally constructed in this shape to provide a [[noise barrier]] against [[London Ringways#Ringway 1|Ringway 1]], a proposed inner-London motorway that was planned to pass through Brixton and Camberwell, later abandoned.<ref name="southwyck">{{cite web |url=http://www.urban75.org/brixton/features/barrier.html |title=Brixton: Barrier Block |website=Urban75 |access-date=5 August 2009 |archive-date=8 April 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090408171905/http://www.urban75.org/brixton/features/barrier.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
[[File:Brixton 1889.jpg|thumb|right|Map of Brixton in 1889, showing Coldharbour Lane, Angell Town and [[Loughborough Road]]. Published in [[Life and Labour of the People in London]] by [[Charles Booth (philanthropist)|Charles Booth]]. The red areas are "middle-class, well-to-do" and the yellow areas are "upper-middle and upper classes, wealthy".]]

Some housing estates have been linked with [[urban decay]] and crime. New gates and iron bars have been constructed for the Loughborough Estate around [[Loughborough Road]] and Minet Road in response to a number of murders around the estate. The Loughborough Estate is home to more than 3,000 families and a mix of 1940s low-rise buildings and 1960s/1970s tower blocks and houses.<ref name=autogenerated8 /> Problems of urban decay have been reported around [[Loughborough Junction]], the catchment area for Loughborough Estate, the Angell Town Estate and the Moorlands Estate.<ref name=autogenerated6>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1988896.stm |work=BBC News |title=Brixton's gone to pot |date=16 May 2002 |access-date=27 April 2010 |archive-date=11 January 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110111221510/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1988896.stm |url-status=live }}</ref>