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Rose Hill estate is one of the largest council estates in Oxford; the eastern
part of it was the biggest estate built before the Second
World War. The estate was begun in 1934 and largely completed by the
1970s. Like much council housing of the 1930s, it was built because of central
government legislation on slum clearances and growing concern about the
need for housing of decent standard for working class people, a concern
that also ensured its completion after the end of the Second World War in
1945. The working class housing stock in Oxford was sub standard and insufficient
and the city needed more affordable dwellings to house the growing population.
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