overspill town

It is London's official overspill town, with quick rail and road links to the capital.

The majority of development took place in the late 1960s, when the Basingstoke was developed as an overspill town for London.

Until the late 1960s Winklebury was a collection of small holdings but Basingstoke's growth as a London Overspill town saw the area developed for housing.

In 1950s the Borough Council was approached by the Greater London Council to become an overspill town, to build houses and take people and industry relocated from the overcrowded capital.

Dawley New Town will incorporate existing communities including Dawley, Ironbridge and Madeley, and will largely be used as an overspill town for Birmingham and Wolverhampton.

Chelmsley Wood is a relatively new area, which was built by Birmingham City Council in the 1960s on ancient woodland (part of the Forest of Arden) as an overspill town for Birmingham.

The scene shifts to the time towards the end of the 1960s when the Johnstone family are being rehoused from the condemned inner city slum area of Liverpool to a new council house in the overspill town of Skelmersdale.

Development has occurred on either side of the Hampshire/Berkshire border following the growth of the Atomic Weapons Establishment on the old Aldermaston airfield in the 1950s and the designation of Basingstoke as a London overspill town in the 1970s.