Description: Residents Colin Davis, Charles Archer, Mrs Benham, Leon Taylor, Edna Daley, Katherine Wolfe, Deborah Small, Ken and Doreen Gilmour, Cortwright Spencer and Yvonne Hazlewood tell the story of the transformation of the Holly Street housing estate in the Dalston area of the Borough of Hackney. They describe how the original Holly Street estate built in the early 1970s had little open space and became a hive of crime, vandalism and infestation, with a reputation for the poor health of its residents. The flaws in the estate are discussed by David Pope, a housing consultant who sees the failed social engineering and utopian ambitions of the original estate as indicative of a form of architecture out of touch with those who will inhabit the buildings. The residents talk about how, when the estate became selected for regeneration, the participation of the tenants was core to building a new housing area with shared social spaces that addressed the problems of the past.