New Towns in The United Kingdom - Overspill Estates

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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