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    An overspill estate is a housing estate planned and built for the housing of excess population in urban areas, both from the natural increase of population...
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  • families from the inner city slums of Manchester as an overspill estate. Other Manchester overspill estates include Hattersley (mostly built during the 1960s)...
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    Hattersley (category Housing estates in Greater Manchester)
    build a large overspill estate, which became home to many families rehoused from inner-city slum areas like Gorton. Another similar estate was built in...
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    Castle Vale (category Housing estates in Birmingham, West Midlands)
    modern residential character stemming from its history as a postwar overspill estate. The area was originally known as Berwood, from the Saxon 'Bearu' meaning...
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  • A few months later the family moved to a new council house on an overspill estate at Pollok. Various authors have stated that Brady tortured animals...
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    London overspill communities are the communities created as a result of the government policy of moving residents out of Greater London into other areas...
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    construct large overspill estates. In Birmingham he forced the building of Castle Vale and the 15,590 dwelling Chelmsley Wood estate, Solihull. Laws restricted...
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    Birmingham for the construction of overspill estates. This caused a drop to 678 (almost the 1861 level). Post Second World War estate building in Castle Bromwich...
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    Gamesley (category Housing estates in Greater Manchester)
    underwent considerable change. It was chosen as the location of an overspill estate, built by Manchester City Council. This was in order to rehouse people...
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    Lakes Estate in what is now Milton Keynes (but preceded it) was designed and built by the Greater London Council as part of its London overspill developments...
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    Victorian slums in inner-city Manchester. An area of Partington became an overspill estate and is now one of the most deprived parts of Greater Manchester. The...
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    around 8,000 people. The land was developed into council housing overspill estates by Worsley Urban District Council to accommodate residents moved there...
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    1931 and throughout the mid-20th century it was redeveloped as an overspill estate. Northenden was mentioned as Norwordine in the Domesday Book of 1086;...
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    Langley, Greater Manchester (category Housing estates in Greater Manchester)
    miles (8.9 km) northeast of Manchester city centre. Langley is an overspill estate, created in the 1950s for Manchester City Council. Families moved into...
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    part of the Forest of Arden, as an overspill town for Birmingham. Permission for the construction of the overspill estate on green belt land was granted by...
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    due to slum clearance and the increased building of social housing overspill estates by Manchester City Council after the Second World War such as Hattersley...
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    Second World War, overspill housing estates were created in the town to accommodate families from Manchester. The Longridge overspill estate was built in Over...
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    St Helier, London (category Housing estates in the London Borough of Sutton)
    until the early 20th century. The estate was built between 1928 and 1936 by the London County Council as an overspill estate for the re-housing of people from...
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    Worsley (redirect from Bridgewater Estates)
    factory employed 3,000 people. Under the Housing Act 1919, large overspill estates were built by the council for veterans of the First World War, but...
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    transferred to the County Borough of Stockport to enable a large residential overspill estate to be built. Until 1953 Bredbury Ward returned twelve councillors to...
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    Initiative List of planned communities List of urban planners New town Overspill estate Phase I Environmental Site Assessment Principles of Intelligent Urbanism...
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    Castle Hall was also completed. The construction of the Buckton Vale overspill estate also took place in the early 1970s. The early 1980s saw the closure...
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    Megaproject – Extremely large-scale construction and investment project Overspill estate – Housing for relocated inner-city residents New town – Settlement...
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    Patchway Estate. In the 1950s and early 1960s a large bungalow estate was built at Stoke Lodge, adjacent to Patchway Common. A huge overspill estate was built...
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    western part of the constituency, in Glossop (especially the Manchester overspill estate of Gamesley), Hadfield and Tintwistle, are more Labour-inclined. The...
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    Whitefield, Greater Manchester (category Housing estates in Greater Manchester)
    was completed in the 1950s, whilst the Hillock estate was conceived in the 1950s as an overspill estate for 8,000 people rehoused from the City of Manchester...
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    Haughton Green (category Housing estates in Greater Manchester)
    became more built up and became more so when the Manchester (Beswick) overspill estate was located here in the late fifties behind existing housing on Two...
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    county assistance, to be used in part as a London overspill estate. Many of the roads on the estate reflect this, being named after the London boroughs...
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    its character changed when it was earmarked for a massive "London overspill" estate in the 1950s and 60s. The only remains of the manors, rectory land...
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  • de Montbray and listed as a mill. The Lakes Estate, south of Bletchley was the last London overspill estate to be built by the Greater London Council....
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