Sentence examples for estate was built from inspiring English sources

The estate was built in avenues, like the American system.

The Becontree estate was built in 12 years.

Part of that land, which forms part of the Grosvenor's London estate, was built on by the family in the early 18th century and became known as Mayfair, named after the annual Mayday fair.

In an early attempt to tackle the degenerating effect of industrial decline on housing, a cluster of low-rise council houses, the Cardroom Estate, was built there in 1978.

And yet, despite these considerable efforts to involve and retain the original community, once the Byker Wall estate was built, fewer than 20% of the original residents were rehoused there.

The 1928 estate was built a few miles from Woodstock by Raymond Pitcairn, an heir to the Pittsburgh Plate Glass fortune, but Mr. Wallace gave it musical renown when he built recording studios there that attracted the likes of Norah Jones, David Bowie and Natalie Merchant.

AT FIRST glance, Foxglove Mead in Chertsey looks like any other housing estate being built in Britain.

"IT CAN be a hard sell", admits Jonathan Speed, a spokesman for Barking Riverside, a new housing estate being built on the site of an old power station on the banks of the Thames.

The Conservative MP for Cardiff North, Jonathan Evans, said: "There is as much chance of housing development being granted north of the M4 motorway as there is for a new housing estate being built in the grounds of Cardiff Castle.

Many of the original houses on the estate were built by master builder Walter George Tarrant whose firm constructed the original external garage ca.1920 (demolished ca.1995).1995

Blocks 1 to 14 of Lam Tin Estate were built between 1962 and 1965 as type 4 public housing buildings ; the other 10 towers were built between 1969 and 1975 as type 6 public housing buildings.