What is "council estates"

Usage examples of "council estates".

Abingdon had one of the best-kept council estates I think I've ever seen - huge sweeps of lawn and neat houses - and a handsome town hall built on stilts as if somebody was expecting a forty-day flood, but that's as much as I'm prepared to say for Abingdon.

A few blocks beyond, through a maze of grim council estates and converted warehouses, was the River Thames.

From here he threaded his way through the winding back streets, over the canal, past the council estates that lined the canal, through a number of smaller and smaller squares, till finally he reached Peckender Street, which had turned out to be a good deal farther than he'd thought.

There's the rich and famous on one side of the High Street, the Cypriots and the council estates on the other, with everybody shopping together in Inverness Street.

The Brown lows had risen in the world, a stroke of sheer luck, a fortunate cross on a coupon had given them a new status, a magnificent home in an executive area and she had to go and grovel back in the council estates.

Here the plain square houses of the council estates gave way to a forlorn and eerie no-man's-land, where streets of once-fine, three-storey terraced houses still stood, inexplicably preserved from the bulldozer, surrounded by areas levelled in expectation of a boomtime that had never come.

Here the plain square houses of the council estates gave way to a forlorn and eerie no-man’.

I doubted a roughly equivalent fracas in one of the poorer council estates would have attracted quite such diligent and comprehensive investigation.

Then it entered Burton Lane and began a rambling tour of two council estates.

In the housing projects, council estates which combine urban decay with a tang of authentic suburban dread, children stand and talk in groups, and stare at the cars.