Sutton Dwellings, also known as the Sutton Estate, are a series of 14 residential buildings in Chelsea, London, U.K.
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History
At the beginning of the 20th century, the 4.5-acre area bounded by Leader Street (now known as Ixworth Place), Cale Street, and College Street (now known as Elystan Street) was home to many overcrowded small houses.
In 1908, the William Sutton Trust, established by philanthropist William Richard Sutton, purchased the area. They demolished the houses and built 14 red-brick residential buildings, designed by architect E.C.P. Monson, for social housing. The buildings, which housed 2,200 people in 764 apartments, were completed in 1913.
The buildings are owned by Affinity Sutton, an affordable housing trust in London. In 2015, Chelsea residents protested the eviction of some low-income tenants while the trust planned to turn some apartments into luxury properties for private landlords. They accused the trust of "social cleansing". In 2016, Affinity moved residents out of 159 flats and had workmen make the properties uninhabitable by smashing windows, doors, sinks and toilets in advance of a plan to demolish the buildings and replace them with 237 new social rent flats and 100 to be sold at market rate to support the redevelopment. Kensington and Chelsea Borough Council rejected the application and a public inquiry is being held. In August 2017, it was suggested that the empty flats could temporarily house the survivors from the Grenfell Tower fire in North Kensington.
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