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Twenty-three storey Walter Robinson Court and 16-storey Elizabeth and Churchill Courts &#8211; dating from the 1960s and early 1970s &#8211; were reduced to rubble to make way for a 190-home Lovell regeneration scheme. As part of the regeneration the rubble will be recycled as a base course for new roads and to raise the western part of the site. 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