The Hyson Green neighbourhood is just to the northwest of Nottingham city centre and consists of a mix of private, council and housing association dwellings. Almost dead centre in Hyson Green was the Hyson Green Estate, which was demolished in 1987. Some people felt the estate gave the neighbourhood a bad name, and one report suggested it was ‘one of the ugliest and most unpopular 1960s system-built developments in the Midlands’ (Nottingham Community Housing Association, 1988).