 On the western edge is a line of shops, and there were social facilities in order to create an urban microcosm.These included a public swimming pool, gym, guest flats for residents' visitors, estate office, pub and tennis courts (originally a bowling green), nursery and police office – the whole combining to make an urban microcosm.The nursery and police office have been closed but other facilities survive, preserving the values that lay behind the creation of the estate.