St Matthew's, Leicester

The St Matthew's estate is an area of inner city Leicester. It is, statistically, the most deprived neighbourhood in Leicester today and the most income deprived neighbourhood in England (Indices of deprivation 2007).[1]

It lies immediately to the northeast of the city centre and is bounded by the A594 ring road to the southwest, Belgrave Gate to the west, Belgrave to the north at Dysart Way and Humberstone Road to the east.

The area previously consisted of small factories and slum housing - much of it back-to-back houses - and was redeveloped in the 1950s as council housing. The majority of the housing stock is local authority-owned. The area is isolated, with no adjacent residential areas and is cut off from the city centre by the dual carriageway ring road.

References
  1. Indices of Deprivation 2007 Archived 2008-06-28 at the Wayback Machine on CLG website. Retrieved 2010-03-19

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.