It kept everything close to the vest, with a closed off development community and rigorous control over applications.
"Part of the problem is that our urban green spaces are disappearing or being closed off from communities.
Grim and closed off, the Haverfordwest community was known for instances of spectacular racism.
"It will not be a traditional old person's home restricted to the very elderly and closed off from the community but a dynamic living entity".
Historically, Bordeaux was always a secular community, closed off by distance from Paris but, through its seaport, open to the rest of the world.
A family moves into a gated community usually closed off to new buyers, because all the rest of the families are aliens from a planet where the men bear the children and everybody cries green goo from their ears.
WHAT YOU'LL FIND Edgewater Park and Silver Beach Gardens each have one main entrance and have closed off other streets into the communities.
"Traditionally, Chelsea galleries are mostly inaccessible, closed off and normally attract insular communities.
It's not a community that's closed off.
Entire communities have been closed off, victims of illegal collective punishment.
Even inside the small Doha (which is playing catch up with Dubai, but is clearly a decade or so behind), there are communities that are closed off to outsiders.
