The story of the Heygate Estate is a prime example for the failure of the 'tower block' housing concept in the United Kingdom. Tower blocks were originally meant to be a solution to the issue of 'decent' housing. However at present we can observe the ultimate waste of these utopian castle-in-the-air housing projects which have been scrapped and abandoned like Heygate Estate itself. The empty tower block now stands as a symbol of a paradigm failure in UK social policy. The almost entirely abandoned Heygate with its doors and windows plated with metal apparently has raised more questions that it had managed to answer.
