"Super-gran" Silla Carron is back – and she has a new troubled estate in her sights. Former recipient of Pride of Britain's 'Neighbour of the Year' award, Silla worked tirelessly to make her home, an estate in Camden, North London, a better place to live. By building rock-solid channels of communication with local councillors and educating her friends and neighbours about their rights, Silla managed to turn the estate into a community that the residents were proud to call their home.

In the first award-winning series of The Estate We're In (2008), Silla took her ethic to a similarly run-down estate in Plymouth, and now she's back to do the same to the Lawrence Weston Estate in Bristol. Unlike the previous series, where the changes needed were aesthetic, in Lawrence Weston her challenge is to motivate the local residents to develop pride in where they live and foster a new sense of community, before the area can physically begin to turn around.

The new Twofour produced five part series goes out daily at 9.15am from Monday 5 July on BBC One Daytime.

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