Ferrier Estate 3

... But if you look at the ideas the architects had, it might not be such a bad place to live at all. The parks in the squares are such that if your kids are playing, you can keep an eye on them and call them to dinner, there are plenty of trees about and the whole place even when fully occupied, would be pretty much traffic free.

If you explore the bits where some people still live, and you notice a few parked cars, the atmosphere changes and it feels a bit more like a place someone might be happy to call home.

A stones throw from town, on a hill, lots of greenery, and with its own railway station, that's pretty good going.

If the people who are in charge of the area lived in private rented flats, and if the people who dish out council flats (with no regard for whether they are building communities or not, have to live in the sink estates they create), perhaps they would have a different view too.

After a happy day of exploring I decided I liked the Ferrier Estate quite a lot.