Overspill Estates
- Out-county London County Council housing developments, of which Becontree was the largest.
- Wythenshawe, built on what used to be Cheshire land in the 1920s as a Manchester overspill estate but was not completed until the early 1970s.
- Various London overspill estates.
- Castlemilk, Drumchapel, Easterhouse and Pollok in Glasgow.
- Castle Vale in Birmingham.
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