The Gap

[DanaC]

I guess it doesn't really translate in a couple of pictures. It's a deprived area in terms of the levels of unemployment and disaffection, some of the highest levels of teen-conceptions in the country and very high crime rates. Those houses are primarily ex-council houses now owned by a third party non-profit social housing company. Most of the work in the area has dried up and culturally, it has some of the least mobility in the borough. In fact there are significant chunks of the ward so deprived that as a whole it sits within the worst 20% of the country in the multiple deprivation index.