Protesters have staged a sit-in protest at an estate where Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange was filmed over claims a regeneration project of the area is akin to 'ethnic cleansing'.
Locals occupied Lakeside Centre, Thamesmead, in south east London, on Saturday night and unfurled a black banner on a roundabout with 'end art washing' written in green letters.
Nicknamed Little Lagos due to them being one of the UK's largest communities of Nigerian heritage, they claim they are being priced out of a new development that will see their 816-home Lesnes estate bulldozed and replaced with 2,778 new ones.
The area famously featured in Kubrick's film adaptation of Anthony Burgess dystopian novel 50 years ago.
It was hailed as the 'town of tomorrow' when it was built in the 1960s, and is now seen as a more attractive proposition for city workers with the arrival of the Elizabeth Line meaning quicker travel times to central London.
