Pigott Street is a road in Poplar

Poplar, London

Poplar is a historic, mainly residential area of the East End of London in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is about east of Charing Cross. Historically a hamlet in the parish of Stepney, Middlesex, in 1817 Poplar became a civil parish. In 1855 the Poplar District of the Metropolis was...

, Tower Hamlets

London Borough of Tower Hamlets

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, London

London

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. The blocks of flats

Apartment

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 on it form part of the last phase of the building of the Lansbury Estate

Lansbury Estate

The Lansbury Estate is a public housing estate in the Poplar area of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets named after George Lansbury, a Poplar councillor and Labour party MP.It is one of the largest such estates in London...

, and border the southern end of Burdett Road on the west.




The housing was completed in 1982 by the Greater London Council

Greater London Council

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, although earlier phases in the Lansbury Estate

Lansbury Estate

The Lansbury Estate is a public housing estate in the Poplar area of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets named after George Lansbury, a Poplar councillor and Labour party MP.It is one of the largest such estates in London...

 were implemented by the London County Council

London County Council

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. In 1998, ownership of part of the estate including Pigott Street transferred to a local housing association

Housing association

Housing associations in the United Kingdom are independent not-for-profit bodies that provide low-cost "social housing" for people in housing need. Any trading surplus is used to maintain existing homes and to help finance new ones...

, Poplar HARCA

Poplar HARCA

Poplar HARCA is a housing association in the East End of London, England. It is the landlord of about 8,500 homes in the Poplar area, a quarter of which have been sold leasehold; the remainder are let on assured tenancies at subsidised rent levels.The association focuses on community regeneration...

.

Along with various other nearby streets, it is named after the family of Francis Pigott Stainsby Conant, MP for Reading Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man

Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man

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 1860—1863. This family held 38 acres (153,780.7 m²) of land in Poplar and Limehouse

Limehouse

Limehouse is a place in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is on the northern bank of the River Thames opposite Rotherhithe and between Ratcliff to the west and Millwall to the east....

in the 19th century.