We live in ‘UK’s most desirable council flats’…but we hate our rude millionaire neighbours – they call cops on us
BRITS living in the country's "most desirable council flats" have slammed their "snobby" millionaire neighbours.
The white block of avant-garde social housing on Mansfield Road in North London stands out from the surrounding rows of terrace Victorian homes.
It counts among its neighbours the wealthy owners of highly sought after million-pound homes bordering Hampstead Heath's Parliament Hill.
And those living in the block say they feel "looked down on" by their more privileged neighbours.
Cordelia Mayfield, 74, has lived in the Mansfield Road block for 26 years.
She told the Sun Online she once went to a Mansfield Road Residents Association which was made up of residents who live in the more expensive homes closer to the heath.
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She added: "They looked at me as if I'd come out of some nasty pond. I didn't go back. They were really snobbish and came from the more affluent homes."
She and her partner live in a tiny two-bed home, which they decorated with pops of colour and minimalist furniture.
She said: "I absolutely love it here but most of the flats do have some kind of leakage."
Sara Hashani, 30, has lived in a council flat in the block since she was eight years old.
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She said posh neighbours accused her of "spitting" and regularly called the cops.
She added: "We have had issues with neighbours before. They'd call the police on us for no reason and accuse us of spitting, which I never would."
Dad-of-one Mike, 51, moved into his flat in 1982 and claimed the area is a haven for drug dealing.
He said: "There's a lot of drug dealing here. It's too hot in the summer, too cold in the winter. Our neighbours use power tools constantly until 11pm at night.
"We like living around wealth because it makes it nicer here."
Another neighbour, who didn't want to be named, has lived in one of the council-owned flats for 36 years.
He has to move out this month after his mum, who was the social housing tenant, died.
They said: "The flats are nice inside. But the whole block has rats. That's not that nice. My mum passed away so they're making me move out. It's hard."
Mum-of-one Milou Gort, 32, moved into her rented flat five years ago and revealed her friends doubted her decision to live there at first.
She said: "We do love it here. It's really nice inside. People are always really surprised by how nice it is inside.
"It's split level and there's a roof garden. And it's in an amazing area. We do have friends who don't like the look of the outside."
It comes after residents on the block laughed off a TikTok video calling it the "most desirable council flats".
Mansfield Road, which is made up of 64 flats and maisonettes, was the last part of the post-war Gospel Oak Redevelopment to be completed.
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Its architects wanted to respect the original terraced street pattern, but interpreted it in a modern way.
It cost £1.7m to build and took six years. Its first residents moved in 1980.
