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The estate is managed by Incommunities and Bradford Council. In 1996, it was one of the largest council-housing estates in West Yorkshire. [1] Most of it consists of low-rise buildings, there are only two tall blocks of flats, namely Ogden House and Kelvin House on Dane Court Road. [2]
Wasteland and housing in Buttershaw. Buttershaw is a residential area of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. It is bounded by Horton Bank Top to the north, Wibsey to the east, Woodside to the south and Shelf to the west. Buttershaw consists mostly of 1940s council housing with the building
Semi-detached council house in Seacroft, Leeds, West Yorkshire A mixture of council and ex-council housing (through Right to Buy scheme) in Hurlford, East Ayrshire, Scotland. A council house, corporation house or council flat is a form of British public housing built by local authorities. A council estate is a building complex containing a ...
This is a list of notable council estates. Public housing in the United Kingdom has typically consisted of council houses , often built in the form of large estates by local government councils. Becontree in The London Borough of Barking & Dagenham is generally considered to be the largest council estate (in terms of population).
Council housing in Rastrick, Calderdale, West Yorkshire. During the Second World War almost four million British homes were destroyed or damaged, and afterwards there was a major boom in council house construction. [26] The bomb damage from the war only worsened the condition of Britain's housing stock, which was in poor condition before its ...
Seacroft is an outer-city suburb/township consisting mainly of council estate housing covering an extensive area of east Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.It lies in the LS14 Leeds postcode area, around 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Leeds city centre.
A decision was made, in 2004, to transfer the district's extensive council housing to Wakefield and District Housing (WDH), an 'independent' housing association, who would be more efficient with repairs and maintaining decent accommodation; as council housing represented almost 30% of the district, this was the second-largest stock transfer in ...
The council housing as well as private housing around Coxwold Hill was built first, then in the 1960s, developer Ashtons built many houses (both semi detached and detached). Ashtons built many houses around West Yorkshire in this era, not only in Wetherby, but also in Holt Park, Knottingley and Mirfield.