Pert Close was created as part of a slum clearance project.
The Freehold estate covered much of what is now Cromwell Road, Syndney Road and Hampden Road. It was laid out about 1863 by the Westminster Freehold Land Society on low, badly drained land close to Strawberry Brook.
By 1867 overcrowding was such that there were about a thousand people living in 130 houses, many of them labourers attracted by employment at Alexandra Palace.
Slum clearance in the area was proposed as long ago as 1933, but Pert Close, a large estate of 3-storey flats, was erected only in 1970.
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Pert Close was created as part of a slum clearance project.
