Robin - Alton Estate: An injury to one is an injury to all by Social Housing Sound Archive published on 2018-04-22T17:23:23Z I recently had the great pleasure of speaking to Robin Bishop, resident of Alton Estate, Roehampton, and member of Alton Regeneration Watch (www.altonwatch.org.uk); an organisation that he described as 'keeping a sceptical eye' on the proposed regeneration of the estate. We met in Cafe Joy on Danebury Avenue, in the area proposed for demolition. He spoke - amount other things - about life on the estate, the closure of local services and amenities (especially those for children), managed decline, the promise of ‘jam tomorrow’, the misguided concept of ‘designing crime out of an estate’, the general lack of meaningful diagonal between residents and the council; also the developer, the ‘consolation’ company and course the architectural natural of the site. Thanks to Cafe Joy for letting us sit on their sofa for hours and chat. They service rather good tea and coffee, thoroughly recommended! Genre Oral History