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Housing estates are the usual form of residential design used in New towns, where estates are designed as an autonomous suburb, centred around a small commercial centre. Such estates are usually designed to minimise through-traffic flows, and to provide recreational space in the form of parks and greens.

In the UK, housing estates have become prevalent since World War Two, as a more affluent population demanded larger and more spaced apart houses. In addition, the problems incurred by the early attempts at high density tower-block housing turned people away from this style of living. The resulting demand for land has seen many towns and cities increase enormously in size for only moderate increases in population. This has been largely at the expence of rural and green beltFor other uses of the word Greenbelt, see Greenbelt (disambiguation). A green belt or greenbelt is an area of largely undeveloped wild or agricultural land surrounding or neighbouring an urban area. A similar concept is the greenway which has a linear cha land. There is now much evidence coming to light of a severe and detrimental impact on the environmentAn environment is a complex of external factors that acts on a system and determines its course and form of existence. An environment may be thought of as a superset, of which the given system is a subset. An environment may have one or more parameters, p as a result, partly from the change of land use caused by the estates themselves, and partly because most estates encourage rather than discourage the use of the carAn automobile usually called a car (an old word for carriage) or a truck is a wheeled vehicle that carries its own engine. Older terms include horseless carriage and motor car with "motor" referring to what is now usually called the engine. The act of ope for transportFor other article subjects named transport see transport (disambiguation). Transport or transportation in American English, is the movement of people and goods from one place to another. The term is derived from the Latin trans meaning across and portare. Recently, there has been some effort to address this problem by banning the development of out-of-town commercial developments, and encouraging the reuse of brown fieldIn town planning, brownfield land is an area of land previously used or built upon, as opposed to greenfield land which has never been built upon. In some cases it may be land previously used by heavy industry or mining and therefore may be contaminated b sites for residential building. Nevertheless the demand for housing continues to rise, and in the UK at least has precipitated a significant housing crisis .