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Have you experienced segregation in housing developments?

Social housing tenants have been blocked from using a communal play area at the Baylis Old School complex in south London.
Social housing tenants have been blocked from using a communal play area at the Baylis Old School complex in south London. Photograph: Graeme Robertson/The Guardian

Guardian Cities has reported how a London developer has segregated play areas for richer and poorer residents.

Henley Homes has blocked social housing residents from using a communal playground at its Baylis Old School complex, a multimillion-pound housing development on Lollard Street, south London.

The design of the housing development means children living in social housing cannot access the play area.

The Guardian has previously reported on other instances of segregation in housing developments. Last year affordable housing residents in Royal Wharf, a development in east London, said they were told they could not use a luxury swimming pool and gymnasium, which were being kept for the exclusive use of private owners and renters.

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