page_title: Wimpey no-fines house
section_title: Examples
hierarchical_section_title: Wimpey no-fines house / Examples
caption_attribution_description: English: Wimpey No Fines houses on Sweet Dews Grove
context_page_description: The Wimpey No-fines House was a construction method and series of house designs produced by the George Wimpey company and intended for mass-production of social housing for families, developed under the Ministry of Works post-World War II Emergency Factory Made programme. "No-fines" refers to the type of concrete used - concrete with no fine aggregates.
context_section_description: No-fines houses were typically built in estates of a few hundred separate dwellings.  Examples are found throughout the UK, and include
  Hesters Way, Whaddon, St. Pauls and Rowanfield in Cheltenham
  Chaucer Way and Hardy Close, Hitchin, Hertfordshire
  Canley, Tile Hill and Keresley in Coventry
  Clifton Estate in Nottingham
  Innsworth and Elmbridge in Gloucester
  Abbeydale in Redditch
  Milton and Bishopbriggs in Glasgow
  Erskine, circa 1970. in Renfrewshire constructed to deal with the Glasgow overspill
  New Addington in Croydon
  Edinburgh
  Musselburgh known locally as the ‘Wimpeys’
  Leicester in Rowlatts Hill, Beaumont Leys, Braunstone Frith.
  The Millfields estate in Wednesbury, West Midlands
  Harestanes in Kirkintilloch
  Parsons Close in Portsmouth
  Orchard Park Estate in Kingston upon Hull
  Underwood in Newport South Wales
  Kirkby Liverpool
  Houndstone in Yeovil
  Hemlington in Middlesbrough, also had a Radburn design layout housing. The Radburn design layout was supposed to separate cars from pedestrians and make it safer and more pleasant. The Fordyce Estate in Hemlington received an Estate Action Bid, Government funding, to carry out major redevelopment and improvement to the issues caused by both these designs. This Estate Action Bid was campaigned for successfully by the Tenants on the Fordyce Estate in Hemlington.
  Thorpe Edge Estate in Bradford, West Yorkshire
  Hilton in Inverness
  Barn Hall Estate in Wickford, Essex
  Howard Road/Elin Way Estate, South Cambridgeshire
  Szentendre, Hungary
caption: No Fines houses on Sweet Dews Grove, Hull
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