Housing
The building of Hollingbury housing estate, located on the north-western slopes of the hill, commenced in 1946. The development is a mixture of bungalows, flats and houses with most of the earlier properties having large gardens. Some properties were originally owned by the local authority and some were privately owned although a large number of the local authority ones have since been sold. Some roads (Westfield Crescent for example) contained clusters of houses for use as armed forces or police service housing. Most of these have been sold and are now privately owned.
The housing is divided by small parades of local shops which are located throughout the estate along with some public houses.
The estate is the town's largest post-war (World War II) council estate and is built on land originally acquired by the council in November 1909.
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