During the nineties, Harlesden was one of London’s least-loved satellite towns – a symbol of urban deprivation with high crime levels and low life expectancies. At its centre was the notorious Stonebridge estate, a dispossessed wasteland littered with brutalist tower blocks that was considered so dangerous that in 1995 prime minister John Major cancelled a speech there for fear of being shot.

More than a decade later, Stonebridge estate has become an unlikely symbol of successful urban regeneration illustrated in the architectural photography above. Where once stood oppressive tower blocks, there are now smaller scale housing units, and crime in Brent is now 8% lower than in London as a whole.  Much of this has been achieved by the Stonebridge Housing Action Trust, which was set up in 1994 to help clean up the area and rebuild 1,775 homes.