council housing estate

"I was brought up on a council housing estate and saw how good houses with public spaces created a great community." |George Clarke's Council House Scandal will be shown on Channel 4 on Wednesday at 9pm.

Clarke, from Washington, in Tyne and Wear, is currently working with Manchester City Council on a 27-house development: "I was brought up on a council housing estate and I saw how really good, welldesigned houses in a welldesigned estate with great public spaces and amenities created a great community ...

LLANBERIS, SNOWDONIA Part of the series was also filmed on the Maes Padarn council housing estate in Llanberis, near Castell Dolbadarn.

Officers acting on information then swooped on Cannon's flat in a council housing estate in Armadale, where they discovered more homemade bombs.

In the 1960s, Bell's Farm was left virtually marooned by construction of the vast Druid's Heath council housing estate.

Bringing the story up to date, some years ago as a councillor I represented a large council housing estate on the edge of an English city which was overlooked by very attractive rolling countryside.

The council housing estate where the boys were seen is also home to several criminals - including the late drug dealer Yoey Verhoeven whose choppedup body was found in the Wicklow countryside last summer.

He is also fair to that underrated figure, Antony Crosland, and his plea, in The Future of Socialism, for a magnificent 'public realm', better than private affluence, in which every council housing estate should have statues and fountains and every town a repertory theatre.

There are also plans to build an indoor pool - something quite unique in a deprived council housing estate!

The murder is the latest in a series of violent incidents in the council housing estate.

Claire is from the affluent end of the city and Mark is from a tough council housing estate - the have and the have not, hence the title.