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Washing machine flats and Legoland houses - the rise and fall of the region's weirdest council estate

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Modernist magazine said Southgate's demise 'was a loss not just for Runcorn but for the entire second generation of new towns and to British architecture as a whole'.

It said the estate was 'largely the victim of an original budget that was far too low to create sufficient quality for such a high-density scheme' adding if it had survived it would have become 'one of the major monuments to this significant period and a key site of architectural pilgrimage in northwest England'.

Speaking to the Architect magazine in 2010 Michael Wilford, Stirling's partner in the charge of the project, did not excuse the pair's involvement, as they had agreed to work within the constraints of a flawed system of low-cost housing.

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