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Sunday 27 May 2012

Is this the UK's most divided street? From £6million homes and celebrity haunts to estates with some of the country's most deprived families.... and it even has its own 'Berlin Wall'

With its elegant houses daubed in pastel shades, designer boutiques, antique shops and art galleries, Portland Road lies at the heart of David Cameron country.

At The Cross, cashmere dressing gowns cost £400. Three doors along, model Kelly Brook and young  Royals dine on lobster risotto and herb-crusted lamb at Julie’s restaurant, just a stone’s throw from the homes of Nicole Kidman, Jason Donovan and Matt LeBlanc.

Yet while the street on the edge of Notting Hill in West London appears to be one of the most exclusive in Britain, it is also the most divided.

While wealthy businessmen, lawyers and bankers head for Portland Road’s chichi shops, just 600 yards away, behind black gates, lie Winterbourne House and Nottingwood House, sprawling red-brick Thirties estates for some of London’s most socially deprived people.                         More

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