The St Matthew's estate is an area of inner city Leicester. It is statistically the most deprived

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in Leicester today and the most income deprived neighbourhood in England (

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on

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website. Retrieved 2010-03-19 It lies immediately to the northeast of the city centre and is defined by the A594 ring road to the southwest at the city centre, Belgrave Gate to the west between the city centre and the area of

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to the north at Dysart Way and Humberstone Road ( A47) to the east at Highfields. The area previously consisted of small factories and slum housing - much of it

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- and was redeveloped in the 1950s as council housing. The majority of the housing stock is local authority-owned. The area is isolated, with no adjacent residential areas and is cut off from the city centre by the dual-carriageway ring road.

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