Roundshaw

Roundshaw is a housing estate and park in south Wallington and Beddington on the eastern edge of the London Borough of Sutton.

[1] The estate is commemorated in various ways; the naming of roads after aircraft, personalities, and firms linked with aviation to recall the airport's history: Mollison Drive, Lindbergh Road, Olley Close, Avro Way, Brabazon Avenue among other related aviation names.

The original brutalist pre-cast concrete flats and maisonettes were heated from a central communal boiler house.

Because of the large spiraling costs generated by the ongoing housing repairs, the London Borough of Sutton began to formulate plans for a regeneration programme over a ten year period.

In 1998, the decision was taken to start the process [6] of a partial demolition regeneration programme over a ten-year period, resulting at a cost of £80m.

A further 674 brick built homes which were also part of the original estate and not of the concrete system, were retained and refurbished with pitched roofs.

The primary school was named after the famous aviator, Amy Johnson, the first woman to fly solo to Australia, from Croydon Airport in May 1930.

Roundshaw Estate as it appeared in the London A-Z atlas, published in 1990
Wilson's School, Mollison Drive, Roundshaw
Mollison Drive, Roundshaw, April 1981