When the Marston Court estate was built in 2017, Ealing’s Labour-run council described it as a ‘ground-breaking and innovative’ solution for vulnerable families and the homeless.
Shipping containers piled alongside and on top of each other in four blocks of two and three storeys had been transported to the site after being built in 14 weeks at a factory in Cornwall.
But what was once a Labour council’s pride has now become Britain’s shame, becoming what residents describe as a modern shanty town overridden with crime.
