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* ''Red Road'' is the sotry of a female CCTV operator in the [[wikipedia:Red Road (flats)|Red Road]] housing complex in Glasgow, the tallest tower blocks in Europe when they were built.
** The director of this and the mentioned above ''Fish Tank'', Andrea Arnold, grew up in a council estate. This can also qualify as a case of [[Write What You Know]].
* ''[[Attack the Block (Film)|Attack the Block]]'' is about the residents of a council estate battling an [[Alien Invasion]].
 
== Literature ==
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* ''[[Only Fools and Horses]]'' has the Trotters live in a council tower block in Peckham.
* ''[[The Bill]]'' has several council estates, such as the Bronte and the Jasmine Allen.
* Rose Tyler in ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' lived on a council estate before she started travelling in the TARDIS. Her mother, Jackie, stayed there, and Rose and The Doctor visited from time to time.
** Incidentally, in 'Tooth and Claw' she is made Dame Rose of the Powell Estate.
* ''[[Waterloo Road]]'' is set in Kirkholt, a suburb of Rochdale which in the show and in real life is practically synonymous with its large, notorious council estate.
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== Theater ==
* In ''[[Blood Brothers (Theatretheatre)|Blood Brothers]]'', the Johnstones are relocated from the terraced house of inner city Liverpool to a new council estate in the suburbs.
 
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