Housing Developments
The town itself, has been host to major housing developments since the 1950s. Several council estates were created to replace the old squatters camps, taken over at the end of the Second World War and also the village created to house Belgian refugees during the First World War. In the 1960s and 70s - private housing was built on the Vigo Estate. The construction of modern housing has continued in the North West of the town until recently.
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