0 an area containing a large number of houses or apartments built close together at the same time: --
1 a group of houses built together in a planned way, sometimes by the local government of an area in order to provide houses for people to rent or buy at a low cost: --
One of the essential features of a new town is that it is not merely another housing estate.
The local authority then decided to develop a housing estate on a position embodying the farm.
However, this parade took place on a new housing estate along a hammerhead cul-de-sac 150 yd long.
There is a very strong case for bringing the whole of this housing estate within one local authority area.
With the advent of the large housing estate nearby, it was completely inadequate and had to be extended.
Fortunately, such a system failed to be implemented on this particular housing estate although, worryingly, the designers are still continuing to search for a social application of their new technology.
Rather than building a 'housing estate', developers are being asked to create the conditions for a sustainable community, made up of the new and the old.
The different views from four houses on a housing estate.
