Consents have been secured for 2,410 new homes on estate land.

During the 1920s and 1930s the surrounding estate land was gradually broken-up and sold for development.

The estate land of 4000 acres was sold piecemeal, mainly to the tenants.

Before 1905, relatively little estate land was planted as the owners searched for economically viable crops.

Some opposition to the idea arose on the grounds that the new highway would quadruple the value of the estate land used by the road.