History of the estate

1981: Bricklayers Arms freight railway station delivers coal for the last time, the station is closed and the land falls derelict.
1987: British Railway Board sells the land.
1988: Quality Street Ltd is established. It was a new corporate landlord experiment externally funded by Nationwide and praised as the future of how the free market would build good affordable homes.
1990? Construction begins on the estate under the Quality Street name.
1998: Nationwide acquires full ownership of the company it previously help set up, and renames it “at.home nationwide”
2011: The estate is acquired by Notting Hill Housing Trust
2013: NHHT agrees to rent controls, with a maximum 10% year-on-year increase for all tenants
2015: The NHHT subsidiary that owns us is renamed Folio London.
2016: Folio tries to evict multiple residents for non-existent rent arrears
2018: NHHT merges with Genesis housing association, forming Notting Hill Genesis
July 2025: NHG starts selling off Folio to cover their debts
November 2025: We are told that 3 days ago Folio has sold the ownership to BMR Group Ltd.