Castle Vale
From UK Housing Wiki
Castle Vale was a major housing estate in Birmingham, England, consisting of 34 tower blocks. Approved in stages between 1964 and 1968, Castle Vale has become one of Europe's largest urban regeneration programmes, witnessing the demolition of 32 tower blocks in the late 1990s for low rise housing and the refurbishment of two tower blocks; Topcliffe House and Chivenor House.
Castle Vale had 27 maisonette blocks, one 20 storey tower, Concorde Tower, and nine 16 storey towers:
- Cosford Tower
- Cranwell Tower
- Abingdon Tower
- Bovingdon Tower
- Kemble Tower
- Lyneham Tower
- Northolt Tower
- Shawbury Tower
- Albert Shaw House
Eight of the 16 storey towers were known as the Centre 8 and were two rows of tower blocks.
[edit] List of tower blocks
- Concorde Tower
- Albert Shaw House
- Abingdon Tower
- Bovingdon Tower
- Kemble Tower
- Lyneham Tower
- Northolt Tower
- Shawbury Tower
- Cosford Tower
- Cranwell Tower
- Ensign House
- Hermes House
- Meteor House
- Argosy House
- Auster House
- Avro House
- Chivenor House
- Comet House
- Hampden House
- Hawker House
- Javelin House
- Kestrel House
- Lysander House
- Pioneer House
- Topcliffe House
- Trident House
- Vanguard House
- Viscount House
- Vulcan House
- Hercules House
- Oakington House
- Ternhill House
- Andover House
- Valiant House
