As Andy Burnham continues to talk up a (relatively) new approach to social housing in England, perhaps now (as Phin Harper suggests) its time to look back 75 years at the Festival of Britain, but not to the South Bank, rather its radical experiment in community-focussed housing in Poplar.

The Right has spent decades rubbishing the FoB but now 75 years later so much of it seems to have been a window onto a better world, one that we should look at(again).

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The Festival of Britain’s boldest dream has been forgotten

Down the road from London’s South Bank landmarks, the exhibition committee built a model social housing estate – for everyone, for the future. Seventy-five years on, where is that spirit now? By Phineas Harper

^{Phin Harper (The Nerve)}