Eerie last look inside ‘post-apocalyptic’ Plymouth estate

Huge swathes of old Barne Barton have been left virtually abandoned in scenes that look like they’re straight out of a post apocalyptic horror movie. Rows of dormant multi-coloured flats covered in cage boards blocking every window and door now line the deepest parts of the north-west Plymouth quadrant. The estate – not far from where armed police stormed a street amid reports of a dramatic shooting over the August Bank Holiday – has been steadily piling out in a mass clear out of the post-war estate ahead of its mammoth regeneration. There’s now barely a soul left in old Clarion plots in the far western stretch of Poole Park Road and Wilkinson Road in particular – where barely five locals across a whole estate still remain. There’s literally more contractors than actual tenants now crawling the streets with vans busy hollowing the buildings out before the bulldozers make their way in. One bloke we found walking his dog is the last one left in his block – and he’ll soon be on his way out too. But not for long – he’s one of the tenants who’s agreed in principle to snap up a brand new flat that’ll be… Read full this story

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