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Billing, Northamptonshire


village feel' as when both were villages. On the other side there is Bellinge and Ecton Brook; estates built in the 1970s and 80s as new towns to house the overspill of London and other areas which are council estates. Bellinge in particular had suffered from serious problems in the 1990s and became one of the most crime ridden estates in England suffering from drug dealing and vandalism until the local council demolished a series of flats which stood on what is now Billingmead Square. The estate is now much improved and does not suffer
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Moor Grange


Moor Grange Estate is a housing estate in the West Park area of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, which was built in the 1950s on reclaimed farmland. Work on the Moor Grange Estate began in 1955. It was originally owned by the local council, and was leased by the council to tenants as a council estate. Most of the housing on the estate is now privately owned. Moor Grange does not suffer the crime problems of other council estates (including the nearby Hawksworth Estate). House prices on the estate are
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Watford


these people were among those who rioted in 1902 when the celebration for King Edward VII's coronation was postponed. The Council had a programme of slum clearance which stopped with the outbreak of World War I in 1914. Building council houses resumed after the war and in the 1920s the Harebreaks estate was developed. By the 1920s, printing had become the biggest industry in Watford. The biggest printers in the town were Sun Printers Ltd and Odhams Press. Watford was the biggest printing centre in the world and many advances in printing were
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Caludon Castle


Caludon Castle is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and Grade I listed building in Coventry, in the West Midlands of England. A second moated site to the south is a Scheduled Ancient Monument in its own right. The castle is now a ruin, and all that remains is a large fragment of sandstone wall. What remains of the estate is now an urban park, owned and run by Coventry City Council, but much of it was sold and developed into housing estates in the early 20th century. The site has been occupied since
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Harefield, Southampton


Harefield is a suburb and Electoral Ward near Bitterne in Southampton, England. The entire suburb consists of a council housing estate built around 1952/3 on the estate of Harefield House. Harefield Ward had a population of 14,035 at the 2011 Census, and is adjacent to Bitterne Park, Peartree, Sholing and Bitterne wards. Harefield House was a country house of Elizabethan style built in 1834 for Sir Edward Butler, chairman of the Southampton and Salisbury Railway Company, in what are now the grounds of Harefield Infant and Junior Schools on Yeovil Chase
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Malahide Cricket Club


Ground is a cricket ground in Malahide, Ireland. The ground is owned by the Malahide Cricket Club and has been developed to take a capacity of 11,500 when using temporary grandstands making it Ireland's biggest cricket venue. In September 2013, International Cricket Council cleared the ground to host an international cricket match. The ground hosted its first international cricket match when home team Ireland played against England, with England winning by six wickets after captain Eoin Morgan hit 124 not out on what had been his home ground in his youth. Malahide
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Cottingley, Leeds


Cottingley is an urban area in the south-west of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Cottingley falls within Beeston and Holbeck ward of the Leeds City Council, and is classed as an area of Beeston. The area includes Cottingley Hall Cemetery and Crematorium, run by the Council. Most of Cottingley is a council estate. The Cottingley Hall estate was built in the 1970s, replacing an estate of temporary prefabricated housing that had previously been on the site. The estate was built on 'New Town Principles' (similar to
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Residential Real Estate Council


1977 when charter members who "had demonstrated extensive experience and knowledge of residential real estate" received the Certified Residential Specialist Designation. In 1985, RNMI endowed what was then called the Residential Sales Council, Real Estate Brokerage Managers Council and the Commercial-Investment Real Estate Council with their own bylaws and governing powers. The main function of the Council of Residential Specialists is to oversee and provide benefits to the CRS Designees. To earn the designation, realtors must fulfill one of two education and transaction options: Realtors must also be in
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Baguley


War II as part of the Wythenshawe Estate, including many council houses and later tower blocks (a typical one shown at right is Brookway Court); Manchester City Council publications refer to Baguley as "one of Europe's biggest housing estates". However, much of the social housing has been sold off under the "Right To Buy" scheme and there are also several private housing developments in the area; and parkland was provided from the start under the development plan. Baguley was a township of Bowdon, one of the
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Rainworth


council house had been completed, located on Kirklington Road, just beyond Python Hill School. A large housing estate was built in the 1950s, between Station Road and Warsop Lane (the Wimpey estate) and a further estate was built beyond the original council estate on Kirklington Road, sometime after 1965. This estate was built to accommodate families moved from mines in North East England – the estate became known as the Geordie Estate. In 1975 killer Donald Neilson (the Black Panther) was caught by police officers helped by locals at
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Old Park Farm


Old Park Farm is a residential area of Dudley, West Midlands (formerly Worcestershire and Staffordshire), England. It was developed in the early 1950s by Dudley County Borough council as a council housing estate in the extreme west of the town near the border with Sedgley (which the land on the estate had been part of until 1926) on rural land next to the Wren's Nest estate that had been built in the 1930s. Several private houses were built on the estate as well. The estate consists of 'The Greens
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Holme Wood


Holme Wood is a housing estate in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. Holme Wood is situated off Wakefield Road in the south-east of the City of Bradford and borders Tyersal. It is part of Tong ward. The estate is managed by Incommunities and Bradford Council. It is also one of the largest former council estates in Europe. The estate is rambling; however, there are many pleasant green areas dotted around the estate, among them Valley Natural Play Park along the upper course of Holme Beck and Pit Hill Park
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Dunstable


, the area around Great Northern Road was developed at the end of the 19th century as Englands Close Estate and Borough Farm Estate. The Downside Estate including the shops on Mayfield Road was planned by the borough council in 1951. The northeast quadrant is a mainly commercial and civic area, the result of redevelopment in the early 1960s. But the site of Waterlow's printing works around Printers Way is now occupied by houses built in the 1990s. The Northfields Estate at the north of the town was completed by the borough council in
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John Lyons (Antiguan politician)


of Assembly for Nonsuch in 1727 and later a Member of Council and Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. John Lyons succeeded to the 563-acre Lyons Estate in Antigua. He was sworn in as a member of the Council of Antigua in 1782. After the death of their second child, in 1803, John and his wife, Catherine, returned to England and settled at St Austin's, a 190-acre estate in the New Forest, Lymington, Hampshire. John Lyons died 6 February 1816 in England. A memorial inscription to
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Chelmsley Wood


Chelmsley Wood is a neighbourhood, civil parish and a large housing estate within the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, England, with a population of 12,453. It is located near Birmingham Airport and the National Exhibition Centre. It lies about eight miles east of Birmingham City Centre and 5 miles to the north of Solihull town centre. In 1966 Birmingham City Council compulsorily purchased the ancient woodland and built the 15,590 dwelling council estate to rehouse families on its council house waiting list. With the rise in unemployment in the 1970s parts of the estate
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Grange Park, Blackpool


Grange Park is a council built and largely council owned housing estate in Blackpool a seaside resort on the Fylde coast in Lancashire, England. It consists of about 1,800 dwellings mostly 1940s and 1970s housing, with a population of over 6,000. It is one of the largest council estates in Lancashire and for many years suffered from serious social disorder with a reputation within the town for crime and drugs. Following the establishment, in 1997, of a problem-oriented policing initiative the estate has seen a huge turnround resulting in a Government
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Beechwood, Merseyside


Beechwood is a housing estate situated between Bidston and Noctorum, to the west of Birkenhead on the Wirral Peninsula in England. The estate was built in the 1960s as the Ford Estate and completed in the mid to late 1970s, to house people moving from the North End of Birkenhead and providing a better standard of living. Most of Beechwood is former council property, bought from Wirral Borough Council by local tenants who formed a community housing association. Some of the council houses have been sold under the Right to Buy scheme. The
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Scotlands Estate


The Scotlands Estate is a residential area of Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England. The area was built between 1935 and 1937 as council housing to rehouse families from town centre slums. It formed an effective extension to the nearby Low Hill estate, which was also developed by the local council and was built between 1925 and 1929. Part of the estate, including all of Barrie Crescent and most of the northern section of Keats Road, was demolished in the mid 1980s following the deterioration of the condition of many houses. The remaining
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Thorp Arch Trading Estate


in the construction trade and many others in the post-war years, the site found many new industries requiring the space it could offer. George Moore (founder of Moores Furniture Group) bought the site in 1960s and converted it into a trading estate. Moores Furniture Group furniture factory is situated on the estate, as is a Leeds City Council household recycling centre, a sewage works and many other small businesses situated. A major development, and the biggest employer, is the British Library lending division, the British Library's
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Somerford, Dorset


Somerford is a district in the borough of Christchurch, Dorset. It was in Hampshire until 1974. It borders with Mudeford and is intersected by the Somerford Road (B3059). On the north side is an area of residential housing, originally developed as a council estate in the 1950s. The district has three schools: Somerford Infants, Somerford Junior and The Grange School. The present day biggest employer is BAE Systems (previously as Plessey). Historically, the biggest employers were Airspeed, de Havilland and Gardner's. Somerford
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Enham Alamein


refers to the rebirth of England under the one Christian God, as decreed in the Enham Codes written in the year 1008 at what later became Kings Enham (Upper and Lower), the royal estate of the 1008 lawcode and known as such in the later Middle Ages. Of particular interest is the meeting of the Witan including Bishop Wulfstan and King Aethelred II at Upper (Kings) Enham on 16 May 1008. ). This law-making council of 40 nobles and around 360 retainers, put into draft a decree detailing
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St John the Baptist's Church, Ermine, Lincoln


St John the Baptist is a Church of England parish church on the Ermine Estate in the city of Lincoln, England. Designed by Sam Scorer and consecrated in 1963, it is a Grade II* listed building. The Ermine Estate is a large 1950s council estate located approximately 2km north of Lincoln city centre. The estate was built mostly 1952-1958 as a response to post-war housing shortages. The church is on Sudbrooke Drive in Ermine East. The original temporary Anglican church and combined community centre were the first
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South West England


Cotswold district had the biggest house price increases in the region, and the second-biggest in the UK outside of London and the South-East, in a March 2015 survey. Weymouth and Portland has the highest council tax in England. West Somerset has the lowest average full-time pay at £287; West Somerset is also the district where poor children do much worse than wealthier children at school, with some of the worst differences in the UK, according to Ambition School Leadership. For top-tier authorities,
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Saltwell Park


Saltwell Park is a Victorian park in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England. Opened in 1876, the park was designed by Edward Kemp and incorporates the mansion and associated grounds of the Saltwellgate estate owner, William Wailes, who sold his estate to Gateshead Council for £35,000. Upon opening, it became known as "The People's Park". The park was expanded in 1920 when the council purchased the adjacent gardens to the Saltwell Grove estate and added these to the park. This extended the park's total size to
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Holmcroft


Holmcroft is the name of a Stafford, Staffordshire, England, residential estate approximately 1½ miles north of Stafford town centre, situated in a geographic area long recorded as "Tillington, Staffordshire." "Holmcroft" is also a Ward of Stafford Borough Council. "Holmcroft Road" was the name chosen by the council for the street that connects the residential area to the A34 Stone Road. Thus "Holmcroft" or "Holmcroft Estate" became part of the postal address. Even for estate homes not located on Holmcroft Road.
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Priory Estate


The Priory Estate is a housing estate in Dudley, West Midlands, England, which has largely been developed since 1929. The Priory Estate is so named because it is located near the Priory ruins and Priory Park. It stands on land which once straddled the border of Dudley County Borough and Sedgley Urban District, which were in the counties of Worcestershire and Staffordshire respectively. The borders were moved back several hundred yards in 1926 when Dudley Council purchased the land with a view to building council houses to rehouse more than 2,000 families from
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Concertus Design and Property Consultants


Concertus Design and Property Consultants are formerly part of the property department of Suffolk County Council based in Endeavour House, Ipswich, England. They are an architectural and planning firm who despite being independent, still do a lot of contracts for Suffolk County Council including schools. In 2014 they were listed in the top 50 for best architectural and construction firms in the sector in England. Concertus Design and Property Consultants biggest work is building/designing schools for the council as well as adding extensions to existing buildings like at Kesgrave High School.
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Beckhill


Beckhill (or Beck Hill) is a small council estate in the Meanwood area of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, which has received negative local publicity in the past, but is now the subject of urban regeneration. The area is situated south of Stainbeck Road and north of Potternewton Lane. To the East is the Miles Hill Estate. Beckhill falls within the Chapel Allerton ward of Leeds City Council. The area was built in the 1970s and consists mainly of brick built terrace houses. The estate had a small newsagents on
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Thames View Estate


Thames View Estate is a large housing estate in Barking, East London, England and is near the Barking Riverside development. It contains 2,000 homes and was built between 1954 and 1960 by Barking Borough Council. It was the largest development constructed by the council. The site to the south of Barking was marshland and housing was constructed using piles and raft foundations. The name alludes to the proximity to the River Thames. The built environment is made up of terraced housing, flats and maisonettes. Community facilities, churches (including the
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Bishop Fox's School


Bishop Fox's School is a mixed secondary school located in Taunton, Somerset, England. The school traces its history back to 1522, as the Taunton Grammar School or Tudor Grammar School endowed by Richard Foxe (1448–1528), the Bishop of Winchester. The school was housed in what is now referred to as the Old Municipal Building in Taunton. In 1922, it came under the control of Somerset County Council. The school was located on Kingston Road until 1994. This building was demolished and a new housing estate erected.
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History of Scotland


Scottish national identity. In 1326, what may have been the first full Parliament of Scotland met. The parliament had evolved from an earlier council of nobility and clergy, the "colloquium", constituted around 1235, but perhaps in 1326 representatives of the burghs – the burgh commissioners – joined them to form the Three Estates. In 1328, Edward III signed the Treaty of Edinburgh–Northampton acknowledging Scottish independence under the rule of Robert the Bruce. However, four years after Robert's death in 1329, England once more invaded
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Becontree Hundred


Becontree was an ancient hundred in the south west of the county of Essex, England. Its area has been entirely absorbed by the growth of London; with its name reused in 1921 for the large Becontree estate of the London County Council. Its former area now corresponds to the London Borough of Newham, the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham and parts of the London Borough of Waltham Forest and the London Borough of Redbridge. Its early extent also included parts of what is now the London Borough of Havering. The name is
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Easington, Cherwell


for Cherwell District Council, but the ward had changed to one Labour councillor and one Conservative Party councillor in the previous election of 2002. The Green party candidate lost in 2006. The Conservatives still hold Easington ward for the Banbury Town Council and Oxfordshire County Council. The Liberal Democrats and UKIP fielded no candidates in the ward during 2006. A lone Liberal Democrat stood in the Hardwick estate only. Two of Banbury's biggest secondary schools and one primary school are in Easington: Banbury School is a mixed, multi-heritage,
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Seberang Perai


Municipal Council. Following this latest amalgamation of the local councils, all of Seberang Perai are administered under a single local government, making the Seberang Perai Municipal Council the biggest local government in Malaysia in terms of land size. In the decades that followed, the Penang state government opened massive industrial estates in Seberang Perai, such as in Perai, Mak Mandin, Bukit Mertajam and Nibong Tebal. In addition, the Port of Penang, which had been located in George Town, was shifted to Butterworth in 1974. The completion of
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Hawksworth, Leeds


Hawksworth is a small, early twentieth-century council estate in the Kirkstall ward in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is situated on a hill between West Park and Horsforth and is circled by Butcher Hill, the A65 and Vesper Road. Hawksworth lies within the LS5 Kirkstall postcode area and is commonly known as "The Hawk", "The Hawky" or "The Hawky Estate". After the First World War, councils were encouraged to build 'Homes fit for Heroes', and by 1930 7,000 new council
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Cambridge


to restrict travel by undergraduates. With the arrival of the railway and associated employment came development of areas around the station, such as Romsey Town. The rail link to London stimulated heavier industries, such as the production of brick, cement and malt. From the 1930s to the 1980s, the size of the city was increased by several large council estates. The biggest impact has been on the area north of the river, which are now the estates of East Chesterton, King's Hedges, and Arbury where Archbishop Rowan Williams
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Lansbury Park


Lansbury Park is a residential suburb area of the town of Caerphilly in Wales. The estate was built as council housing (by housebuilders and civil contractors John Laing) in the 1960s on former farmland. It is located in the eastern part of the town and is overshadowed, though at some distance by the concentric castle of Caerphilly Castle, the 2nd biggest of its type in Europe. A Morrisons supermarket and petrol station with a convenience store are located nearby. The estate was named after George Lansbury the politician. He was Leader
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Wymering


Wymering is a residential area of the city of Portsmouth in the English county of Hampshire. Unlike the majority of Portsmouth, it is located on the mainland rather than Portsea Island. Wymering was one of the estates held by Hampshire’s biggest landowner Edward the Confessor immediately before the Norman conquest. Wymering is mentioned in the Domesday Book and was a small village in rural area until it was incorporated into Portsmouth in 1920. On incorporation into Portsmouth a 300-house council housing estate was built there, being completed by 1929. In addition to
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Brookside, Telford


Brookside is a housing estate and borough and parish council ward in Telford, Shropshire, England. The original settlement of Brookside is a Radburn estate built in the early 1970s as part of the development of Telford New Town and is entirely within the confines of Brookside Avenue, a 1.7 mile ring road. Significant development has taken place around the outside of Brookside Avenue since the estate was built, the majority of which is part of Stirchley Park but falls within the Brookside ward for both Telford and Wrekin Council and Stirchley and Brookside Parish
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Blacon


Blacon is a large suburb in Chester, England, containing a mixture of private homes and substantial public council-built properties which are made up of houses, flats and bunglows for those less able. At one time it contained one of the largest council housing estates in Europe, but this estate is now owned, run and maintained by the Sanctuary Group in partnership with Cheshire West & Chester Council. Blacon also has a working relationship with similar suburb 'Lache', although the Lache is not owned by the Sanctuary group,
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Darnhill


Darnhill (or Darn Hill as recorded by the Ordnance Survey) is an area of Heywood, a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, in Greater Manchester, England. In the 20th century, Darnhill was chosen as the location for a planned overspill housing estate for Manchester, to allievate quality housing shortages in that city. The Darnhill council estate is no longer overseen by Manchester City Council, but by the Guinness Trust Housing Association. During World War II, Manchester was heavily bombed. Lacking space the Council bought land from
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Swarcliffe


Swarcliffe, originally the Swarcliffe Estate, is a district of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is east of Leeds city centre, and within the LS14 Leeds postcode area. The district falls within the Cross Gates and Whinmoor ward of the Leeds Metropolitan Council. In the 1950s, the Swarcliffe housing estate was developed by the city council which built two and three-bedroomed semi-detached council houses, a number of three-storey blocks containing 12 flats or more, and three brick-built nine-storey blocks of
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Benchill


Benchill is an area of Manchester, England, part of the Wythenshawe council estate south of Manchester city centre. In 2000, Benchill was named in the Index of Multiple Deprivation as the most deprived ward in England. Following a review by the Boundary Committee for England, Benchill was disestablished as a local government ward in 2003, and the area divided between the neighbouring wards of Sharston, Woodhouse Park, and Northenden. Benchill gained national media attention in February 2007 when Conservative Party leader David Cameron visited the estate and was targeted by
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James Norton (solicitor)


James Norton (27 July 179531 August 1862) was a solicitor and public figure in early colonial New South Wales. Admitted to practise in England, he arrived in Sydney in September 1818 where only four other attorneys were then practising. He was the founder of the first law firm in Sydney. He was a member of the first Legislative Council under responsible government in New South Wales in 1856 and drafted numerous laws. He held land at Mulgoa which was farmed and owned "Elswick", a 30 ha estate in what is
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Nook Farm, Rochdale


Nook Farm (sometimes called Syke Estate) is an estate of council houses situated within the area of Syke, part of Rochdale, in Greater Manchester, England. It is named after the farm that used to occupy the area until the land was sold to Rochdale Council and building commenced in the early 20th century. Many of the roads on Nook Farm Estate begin with N i.e. Newark Road, Norton Road, Newlands Avenue, Netley Avenue and Nantwich Avenue. Since the 1980s many of the houses have been sold to occupiers under
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Ivanhoé Cambridge


Cambridge, headquartered in Montreal, has more than 1,400 employees worldwide. Ivanhoé Cambridge is now among 10 largest real estate companies in the world. The value of its assets, located mostly in Canada, the United States, Europe, Brazil and Asia, totalled more than C$60 billion at December 31, 2017. Ivanhoé Cambridge is a real estate subsidiary of the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, one of Canada's biggest institutional fund managers. The initial entity in what later became the Ivanhoé Cambridge real estate group dates
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Fee simple


the Crown had radical title or the allodium of all land in England, meaning that it was the ultimate "owner" of all land in the past feudal era. However, the Crown can grant ownership in an abstract entity—called an estate in land—which is what is owned rather than the land it represents. The fee simple estate is also called "estate in fee simple" or "fee-simple title", sometimes simply "freehold" in England and Wales. From the start of the Norman period
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Property management


responsibilities. The Council is responsible for determining what is appropriate education in real estate matters for individuals seeking to be licensed as real estate practitioners and arranging for licensing courses and examinations as part of the qualification requirement for licensing. Under the authority of the Council, licensing courses are delivered by the UBC Sauder School of Business, Real Estate Division. Ontario – no licensing is required to operate, however ACMO – the Association of Condo Managers of Ontario is a self-governing body for certification and designation of its members who run buildings
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Moneymore, Drogheda


family, lost three family members. It is the biggest disaster to hit the estate in its almost 30-year history. Moneymore Playing Fields are on council owned land zoned for recreational purposes in the 1980s in accordance with the building of Moneymore Estate at the same time. The Playing Fields were in full use by Moneymore Football Club, which was run by the residents of Moneymore throughout the 80’s. However Moneymore Football Club dissolved in the mid 90s and was only reformed in 2003 whereby the Playing Fields were by then a derelict meadow
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Easington, Cherwell


fully comprehensive school with 1650 students (including sixth form) situated on Ruskin Road, in the Easington ward of Banbury, Oxfordshire, England. The school is a specialist Humanities College. Easington has a non-League football team Easington Sports F.C. who play at Addison Road. There are also 2 minor play parks and one minor park, the biggest of these being on the Timms estate, by the local shopping complex. The local bus services to Banbury town centre via Calthorpe and the Timms estate are run by the Stagecoach Oxfordshire
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2000 Cherwell District Council election


The 2000 Cherwell District Council election took place on 4 May 2000 to elect members of Cherwell District Council in Oxfordshire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative party gained overall control of the council from no overall control. The results saw the Conservatives gain 7 seats, 6 of them from the Labour party, to win a majority on the council for the first time since 1995. Conservative gains came mainly in the Banbury and Bicester areas, with the biggest name Labour councillor to lose in the
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Mile Cross Estate, Norwich


Mile Cross Estate, Norwich is a council estate in Norwich, England. The population of the Mile Cross Ward in Norwich at the 2011 census was 10,655. The roughly triangular shaped estate is approximately north-west of the city centre is bounded to the east and west by Aylsham Road and Drayton Road respectively and Boundary Road and Mile Cross Lane to the north. Mile Cross Road bisects the estate from north to south. Mile Cross was one of the first housing estates in Norwich, and was built in the 1920s as part
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Derby City Council


Derby City Council is the local government unitary authority for Derby, a city in the East Midlands region of England. It is composed of 51 councillors, three for each of the 17 electoral wards of Derby. Currently there is no overall control of the council, with the Labour Party being the biggest party. The acting council chief executive is Christine Durrant. Carole Mills will take over as Chief Executive from August 2018. As a unitary authority, Derby City Council is responsible for all services within its boundary and is therefore distinct
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Council architect


also provided research funding, including for the Survey of London, and had in-house testing and development teams. The smaller scale firms in private practice at the time could not provide such luxuries. The trend in recent decades has been for councils to close their architects departments. As of 2015 there were 237 council architects in England, 159 in Scotland and 24 in Wales. The biggest employers are Hampshire (44), Glasgow (18), the Highland Council (13) and Lancashire (11). Despite their
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Nicholas Exton


was to dispose of the forfeited estates of those condemned by the Appellants. This responsibility they embarked on with zeal, and "at what were, we may suspect, attractive prices". Exton, says Professor Charles Ross, was one of their biggest purchasers. He paid 500 marks for some de la Pole estates, (for example, the manor of Dedham, Essex in 1389) and 700 marks for a manor of Sir John Holt's. In May 1388 Exton loaned the Appellant-controlled government the large sum of
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History of Seacroft


for one of the estate's early state schools. The Village developed slowly over the centuries, and saw very little change until the post war years. In 1934, Leeds City Council bought for municipal housing and after World War II the majority of houses and blocks of flats were built. The council had planned for Seacroft to be a ""satellite town within the city boundary"" Work began in the early 1950s on what was originally known as the Beechwood Estate. Many of the older houses on the estate are more
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Robert Cochrane (witch)


Jane later worked as bargees transporting coal around the English Midlands, taking an interest in the folklore of the Bargee community, later believing that it contained traces of the "Old Faith". By the start of the 1960s, he was living with Jane and their son on a London County Council-run council estate near to Slough, Berkshire; he did not like the neighbours, considering them "the biggest load of monkeys there have been trained since the Ark." He worked as a typographical draughtsman in an office, but
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Valence House Museum


." In the Barking & Dagenham Yellow Advertiser Walsh said "The models look fantastic in the intimate setting of Valence House and they are the original creatures that have been used in some of the biggest Hollywood films. This is a great opportunity for people to see them." The surrounding park of , has been created from the former Valence House estate, and was purchased by Dagenham Urban District Council from the London County Council in 1926. The park hosts one of the Great Trees of London, a Holm oak. A
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Thorney Close


Thorney Close is a suburb of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear in England. It is located on the northern edge of the A690 (Durham Road), and borders with Grindon to the north and Herrington to the south, and the A19 to the west. Work began on the council estate in 1947 and the first 77 houses were completed in 1948. In 1971 the population had risen to just under 14,000. According to the 2001 Census, the population was 9,938, with 36.7% living in council houses. The estate has
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Abbeystead House


Abbeystead House is a large country house to the east of the village of Abbeystead, Lancashire, England, some 12 km (7 miles) south-east of Lancaster. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building. Abbeystead House was built in 1886 as a shooting lodge for the 4th Earl of Sefton. It was designed by the Chester firm of architects Douglas & Fordham, who added gun and billiard rooms in 1894. The estate holds the record for the biggest grouse bag
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Chelmsley Wood


Solihull Sports Centre is the largest and most used sports centre in Chelmsley Wood and its surrounding areas. It hosts two swimming pools, a sports hall, a fitness suite, studio, crèche and café bar. It also hosts an outdoor running track, and an astroturf pitch. The area has for decades had a negative reputation due to being associated with anti-social behaviour and crime, although the estate has been relatively successful compared to other similar estates across England. The area is currently undergoing the biggest redevelopment project in its
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Stephen Simpson (doctor)


to England. According to the auction notice which appeared in the "Moreton Bay Courier" of 3 January 1860 the estate was by then well established with of fenced land, an extensive garden and orchards and 250 head of horses and 400 of cattle. Although appointed on 23 May 1860 as a life member of the Queensland Legislative Council, Simpson attended only once before he travelled to England. He was granted a leave of absence from the Council under September 1864. However, Simpson never returned to Queensland and resigned from the Council
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Tinshill


Tinshill (pronounced "Tins-hill") is a district of Leeds, 4 miles (7 km) north of Leeds city centre, West Yorkshire, England. It was the Danes in the 9th century who named the hill "Tyndr's Hyll". The district is in the Weetwood ward of Leeds City Council. It is situated between Horsforth and Cookridge. When the estate was planned in the 1940s it was originally known as the 'Cookridge Tower Estate'. The estate predated surrounding estates such as Ireland Wood and
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Colin Lambert


fourth-worst LEA in England. On 17 December 2010, nine Lib Dem councillors resigned from their party and left their coalition with the Conservatives on the council, leaving Labour as the biggest party on the council. On 5 May 2011 the Labour Party gained overall control of the council with 29 out of councillors. On 3 June 2014 he was ousted as Council Leader of Rochdale MBC, two days after celebrating 1,000 days as council leader. He joined the Brexit Party in 2019. He is married with two children. He
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Castle Bromwich


. The new council housing was built adjacent to Chipperfield Road and as far as the Newport Road. The name "Firs Estate" now points to the council estate and the name originated from the fir trees that stood near a large house between Chipperfield Road and Hodge Hill Common. The council housing was also extended up what was known locally as "The Golf Links" to meet the Stables, now known as the Comet. Castle Bromwich Golf Club (now defunct) was founded in the 1890s. The club and course closed
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Bourne Estate


Riley. The Bourne Estate is the third of the three key estates built by the London County Council in the years of its greatest innovation. In Britain the Bourne Estate is the least known, but it has an international significance as the model for the much admired and highly influential public housing erected in Vienna immediately after the First World War. The Viennese model was subsequently brought back to England, as can be seen in the Ossulton Estate, Camden, listed some years ago, and in some private mansion blocks in central London
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Wren's Nest Estate


The Wren's Nest Estate is a housing estate located to the north west of the town centre of Dudley, West Midlands, England. Local industrialisation was considerable in the early 20th century, as the district had become highly industrialised in the then heyday of the Black Country's industrial past. The Wren's Nest Estate was originally council housing and was largely built between 1935 and 1939 to rehouse families from town centre slum clearances, along with the adjoining Priory Estate which was built around the same time. The land was historically in
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Goodwyns


Goodwyns is a housing estate in Dorking, a market town in Surrey, England. It is on the return slope of one of two hillsides of the town and adjoins North Holmwood, a green-buffered village. The town centre is about away. The area was developed in the mid-1950s as a council estate on behalf of the former Dorking Urban District Council by the architects William Ryder & Associates. The name recalls Goodwyns Place, a Grade II-listed country house to the north. This Arts and Crafts-style building
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Manor Operatic Society


The Manor Operatic Society is an amateur operatic society based in Sheffield, England. The society was formed in the 1950s on Sheffield's Manor estate. It produces the biggest amateur pantomime in England, presented at Sheffield City Hall each year. The society presented its first pantomime in 1970 and has produced a new show every year since then. The shows used to be staged at the Montgomery Theatre but in 1986 the venue was moved to the Sheffield City Hall to cope with demand. The pantomime attracts a total audience of up to
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2006–07 Ashes series


that." Andrew Flintoff, England's captain, called the series "the reason we play ... we are going over there to play in what could be the biggest series ever so there is an excited group of lads ... it is going to be tough. We know that 2005 was something special and whether that can be recreated I am not quite sure ... in England each Test match got bigger and bigger and we got a real feeling of what the Ashes was about." The "Sydney Morning Herald" newspaper described
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Shorne Wood Country Park


Shorne Wood Country Park is in Gravesend, Kent, England. It was once part of a large estate and then later passed to the council to be used as a country park. This park was once part of the large Cobham Hall Estate. The main entrance to the Hall, leads through the park with various other carriage rides around the estate. Then from the 1930s to the 1970s, part of the estate (was leased by Lord Darnley) was used for clay extraction (by a cement company), using clay
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Royden Park


Royden Park is a park in Frankby, Wirral, England, managed by Wirral Council. The grounds of the park were originally part of an estate owned by Ernest Royden which comprised the park, Hill Bark house and Thurstaston Common. Upon his death the estate passed to Hoylake council and was opened to the public for recreation. The park features a visitor centre, walled garden, miniature railway, woodland walks and a lake. In the 1820s the land on which the park now sits was heath and woodland. During the 1860s
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The Elms, Derbyshire


The Elms is a housing estate built by the town council in the 1950s to provide social housing on the south-western edge of Ripley, Derbyshire, England. It took its name from The Elms farm whose land it was built on. The house, called The Elms, was converted into flats and the farm yard and outbuildings were used as a depot by the council until demolition around the 1970s when sheltered housing was built on the site. The houses on the estate are traditionally built red brick, mainly three and four
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Nunsthorpe


Nunsthorpe (sometimes known locally as 'The Nunny', or by its nickname of Garden City) is a suburb and housing estate in the western part of Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, England. It is situated between Laceby Road (A46) and Scartho Road (A1243), which respectively form its northern and eastern boundaries. The population is listed in the South ward of the North East Lincolnshire Unitary Council. There are over 2,400 homes on the estate, mostly former council properties now owned by the Shoreline Housing Partnership.
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Andreas Whittam Smith


6 March 2002, Whittam Smith was appointed the First Church Estates Commissioner, a senior lay person in the Church of England. As such, he is Chairman of the Church Commissioners' Assets Committee (an investment portfolio of £7 billion), and a member of the Church Commissioners' Board of Governors, the General Synod of the Church of England, and the Archbishops' Council. It was announced in September 2016 that he would be stepping down as First Church Estates Commissioner in June 2017. In 2012 Whittam Smith started
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Tatton Park


Tatton Park is an historic estate in Cheshire, England, north of the town of Knutsford. It contains a mansion, Tatton Hall, a medieval manor house, Tatton Old Hall, Tatton Park Gardens, a farm and a deer park of . It is a popular visitor attraction and hosts over a hundred events annually. The estate is owned by the National Trust, who administer it jointly with Cheshire East Council. Since 1999, it has hosted North West England's annual Royal Horticultural Society flower show. There is evidence of
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Hylton Red House


Hylton Red House, known locally just as Red House (often spelled as Redhouse), is a suburb in the north east of Sunderland, England, situated between Downhill to the west and Marley Pots and Witherwack to the east. The area, Hylton Red House, is one of the largest council housing schemes in North East England. In common with most estates in Sunderland, the street names all start with the same letter - 'R' in the case of Red House. The whole of the estate falls within the
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Shawbirch


is located at the back of the Shawbirch Community Centre in the Little Chicks Preschool.The member of Telford and Wrekin Council for Shawbirch is Liberal Democrat Cllr Bill Tomlinson. He was elected in 2003, 2007, 2011 2015, and 2019. As of 2011 the population was at 3,239, with 51% of residents being male and 49% female. 90.9% of residents were born in England, the next biggest percentage was Wales with 2.3%. 98.5% of people in Shawbirch speak English, and the next biggest language
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William de Braose, 4th Lord of Bramber


as a rightful heir to the throne occupied by John of England. At this point only an earldom separated him from the greatest in England. Soon after this, William de Braose fell out of favour with King John of England. The precise reasons remain obscure. King John cited overdue monies that de Braose owed the Crown from his estates, but the King's actions went far beyond what would be necessary to recover the debt. He distrained (seized) de Braose's English estates in Sussex and Devon, and sent a
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Athersley


Athersley is a village in the metropolitan borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England, and is divided unevenly into two regions, Athersley North and Athersley South. The estate is the only estate in Barnsley to be split into two regions. The estate falls within the St Helens ward of Barnsley Metropolitan Council. The site now occupied by the estate was once farmland and woodland. A large area from Lee Lane was known as Athersley Wood, which stretched nearly to Carlton Hill. The name was first recorded in 1379 as 'Hattirslay
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Alexandra Road Estate


The Alexandra Road estate, properly known as the Alexandra and Ainsworth estate, but often referred to as Rowley Way, the name of its main thoroughfare, is a housing estate in the London Borough of Camden, North West London, England. It was designed in 1968 by Neave Brown of Camden Council's Architects Department. Construction work commenced in 1972 and was completed in 1978. It is constructed from site-cast, board-marked white, unpainted reinforced concrete. Along with 520 apartments, the site also includes a school
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Norbury Estate


The Norbury Estate originated as a London County Council cottage estate constructed between 1901 and 1920 in what is now the north of the London Borough of Croydon. It was declared a conservation area in 2008. The site was a former brickfield, and the clay recovered was fired to make bricks for this estate and Totterdown Fields. The estate was influenced by Ebenezer Howard's Garden city movement and the Arts and Crafts movement, with high quality external detailing and an open setting with privet hedges, front gardens and wide grass verges. The
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Miles Hill


Miles Hill is a district in Leeds. It is about north of Leeds city centre, West Yorkshire, England and is situated between Meanwood and Chapel Allerton next to Beck Hill. The district is located in the Chapel Allerton ward of Leeds Metropolitan Council. As the name suggests, it is a hilltop, looking south over Leeds down the A61 Scott Hall Road. The main part is the Miles Hill estate of 1920's council houses, brick built semi-detached and terraces. A further estate, Beck Hill was built to
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South-East Essex Technical College and School of Art


The South-East Essex Technical College and School of Art (aka Dagenham School of Art) was a technical college and school of art based in Longbridge Road, Dagenham, a suburb in east London, formerly in Essex, England. The Becontree estate was the largest public housing project in the world when it was completed in the mid-1930s. Recognising the need for education but with no responsibility to provide it, the London County Council transferred 24 acres on the western edge of the estate to Essex County Council, who built a
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Ethel Haythornthwaite


of the CPRE (Council for the Preservation of Rural England, later renamed Campaign to Protect Rural England). She was to be secretary of the branch for 56 years from its inception. In 1928 Gallimore spearheaded an urgent appeal to the Yorkshire public, which helped Peak District and South Yorkshire CPRE to raise the funds to buy the 747-acre Longshaw Estate, which was threatened with development. The Estate was gifted to the National Trust in 1931. In 1932 she helped acquire a further 448 acres of threatened land at Blacka Moor.
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Falcon Lodge


Falcon Lodge () is the area of Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, covered in predominantly council houses forming the Falcon Lodge Estate. It is located between Whitehouse Common and Reddicap Heath. To the west of the estate lies Rectory Park. It forms part of the edge of the Sutton Coldfield conurbation and the English countryside. The estate takes its name from the house built on newly enclosed common land in 1820. In 1852 the estate comprised some of meadow, pasture and arable land. In 1937 the Sutton
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Walton Court


Walton Court is a housing estate in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England. The Walton Court estate was built during the 1970s as part of a major council housing expansion. The land had formerly been farmland, and for some time the privately owned housing area was known as Walton Court Farm, after the estate, renamed Hawkslade by Estate Agents to reflect the middle class population split to the west side of Ellen Road. The majority of the roads in Walton Court that were built between the 1970s and 1980s are named after British rivers.
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Petworth (Washington, D.C.)


Petworth borders to two expanses of historic greenspace, Rock Creek Cemetery and President Lincoln's Cottage at the Soldiers' Home. Petworth is represented on the Council of the District of Columbia by the Ward 4 council member: since May 2015, Brandon Todd. Muriel Bowser served as Ward 4 councilmember until she became the city's mayor on January 2, 2015. Petworth was the name of the 205-acre country estate of John Tayloe III, likely named for the ancient town in West Sussex, England. The estate was bequeathed to his
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Chilton Moor


Chilton Moor is a village in Tyne and Wear, England. The village is located between Houghton le Spring and Fence Houses on the Tyne and Wear/County Durham county boundary. The village follows on from Fence Houses (the single street with houses either side) and then splits in two - towards Houghton le Spring, which contains a mix of council and terraced housing - and a new private estate which is built off Black Boy Road. Next to Chilton Meadows Day Nursery. An old council estate is currently being replaced by
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West Park, Leeds


West Park is a suburb of north-west Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, north of Headingley. It is a mixed area of private suburban housing and suburban council estates. The name derives from its main park (approximately 500 metres north-south by 300 metres east-west) containing playing fields together with a conservation area of grassy meadow ending in woodland. The largest housing estate in West Park is Moor Grange. The majority of the area sits in the Weetwood ward of Leeds City Council, except for the south
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People Like Us (TV series)


People Like Us is a British reality documentary series broadcast on BBC Three. The programme tries to reflect the true lives of some of the residents of council estates in England, which according to the programme have continually ranked as the most deprived in the UK.The show has been criticised by Manchester residents, as well as the wider UK for showing a very stereotypical view of council estate residents. The series mainly featured the areas of Harpurhey, Moston and Collyhurst. As a result of how the series depicted the areas, 'I love
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Cities of London and Westminster (UK Parliament constituency)


, Belgravia and Knightsbridge. Less than half the population was born in the UK - a fifth hail from Europe, while one in twenty is American, according to ONS 2011 Census figures for England and Wales. Around half of the electorate are in the more socially mixed areas of Paddington and Pimlico which includes some large council estates (Churchill Gardens and Millbank Estate). The Westminster City Council wards are heavily represented by the Conservatives; in the most recent elections in 2018 the Labour Party won two seats in the Churchill ward in
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Harry Sawyerr


became a Learner Valuer at the Lands Department from 1951 to 1953. He subsequently studied estate management in England at the University College of Estate Management (1953–55), becoming a certified associate of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors and of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, in England. He worked as a District Valuer at the Lands Department in Accra (1955–58), then left public service to establish his private consultancy from 1958 to 1962. From 1962 to 1963 he was City Valuer at Kumasi City Council and worked as Chief Federal
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Defence Training Estate


estate on a regional basis. DTE works with nature conservation bodies to safeguard designated sites and protected species within the estate. These bodies include the Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Natural England, Scottish Natural Heritage, the Countryside Council for Wales and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency. Some practical support is outsourced to Landmarc Solutions, a joint venture between Interserve (a UK support services company) and PAE (an American multinational support services company owned by Lindsay Goldberg). DTE operate a principle of presumption of public access to the training estate
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Alexandra Road Estate


findings of a mismanagement on his part being the subject of a public enquiry however destroyed Neave Brown's reputation in the UK where he never built again. The estate has suffered less vandalism than many Camden estates, and it was granted Grade II* listed status on 18 August 1993, the first post-war council housing estate to be listed. It was described by Peter Brooke, then Heritage Secretary, as "one of the most distinguished groups of buildings in England since the Second World War." After a continuing career
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Aireville Park


Aireville Park is a park in Skipton, North Yorkshire, England. Aireville Park was created in the 1830s by Henry Allcock as part of the Aireville Estate. Thereafter the Dewhurst family who were Skipton textile mill owners purchased the estate including Aireville Hall. In 1945 the estate came into the hands of Skipton Urban Council for £15,000. Aireville Hall the original manor house for the estate became part of a school now named The Skipton Academy and is a Grade II listed building. Aireville Lodge located in the park is also Grade II
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Highgrove House, Eastcote


area of the estate was sold to the local council in 1935 by the then-owner Eleanor Warrender to become what is now Warrender Park. In 1975, the house was granted Grade II listed status on account of its special architectural character. The house was subsequently closed as a hostel by the council and sold for £1.295m to Westcombe Estates. Planning permission was granted to the new owners in January 2007 for the conversion of the building into a luxury housing block of 12 units and expanded for a further three years in
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Oakwood, Derby


Oakwood is a modern housing estate in Derby, UK, built mainly in the 1980s and 1990s. It is one of the largest new housing estates in Europe and, as such, is a major settlement in its own right. It is situated on the outskirts of the city, bordering the suburb of Chaddesden, which is one of the largest council housing estates in England. Oakwood is built on land which used to be known as Chaddesden Common, It has three clusters of shops, the largest of which has all the
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Leyland Titan (front-engined double-decker)


Traction Company of Dewsbury. The biggest order for the PD2/20, which was the biggest seller of the range, was from Edinburgh Corporation Transport, which took 300 with Orion bodies, to replace the city's trams. An Edinburgh Corporation Baillie (an honorary title for a senior councillor, roughly equivalent to an Alderman in England) famously described them unfavourably in the Edinburgh council chambers in the following paragraph of ringing rhetoric: "They are ungainly, inelegant, monstrous masses of shivering tin. They are modern to the extent of being
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Cressingham Gardens


estate is seen in the YouTube video they produced as part of their campaign to save their estate, their homes, and their community. There are three areas where its innovative urban design has resulted in improvement over an estate of multi-storey apartment blocks. Lambeth Council have stated that it would cost £9.4 million (£30,000 per dwelling) to fix the structural defects on the estate. They further state that the £30,000 per dwelling to do the necessary repairs is three times what they can afford. Instead they are
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