Cathall

Cathall

Cathall is a Community-based Housing Association housing estate of the Cathall ward, Leytonstone, East London.

History

Cathall estate was built in 1972, consisting of two 20-storey tower blocks and a huge maze of 8-storey flats. It became one of Britain's poorest areas with extreme levels of poverty and crime.

In the late 1990s, the estate began to be regenerated into a low-rise housing estate by the Waltham Forest Housing Action Trust and Community-based Housing Association. Similar Housing Action Trust schemes were set up across Waltham Forest and Tower Hamlets in East London, Brent in West London, Liverpool, Hull and Birmingham.

Following the removal of the tower blocks, Cathall's most prominent feature is now its leisure centre.

Notoriety

Cathall Estate become somewhat a notorious area with the most notable murder being that of 19 year old Jamaican woman Cassandra Higgins who was killed by Yardie gangsters after being stripped naked and thrown from an eighteenth-floor window [Geoff Small, "Ruthless: The Global Rise of the Yardies"] .Cathall which is locally well known for having a rivalry with Priory Court Estate of Walthamstow and on a regular basis have violent clashes. Residents of upper leytonstone often call it a "NO GO Area" as it has a very high rate of street robberies.

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