Construction of the estate startd in 1957, and when I moved there in 1959 it was about 75% complete, I can't remember seeing an official completion date but my guess is it was 1960-61, by that time it was almost a self-contained community (only needing a doctors and dentist surgery which were closeby anyway) on completion the estate had a village hall (built some years after the school, which took on many of its duties including a polling station, and club meetings), its own shops, (trading-wise always challenged by the major shopping centres at Wylde Green and the even bigger High St) The Lyndhurst Pub (which was closed down some years later because of trouble: shootings and the like) and The Malcolm Lockyer Youth Club (on the nothern edge of the estate, it had/has a fantastic flood-lit 5-a-side football pitch).
A real feature was children were allowed to use the sizeable playing field at the side of the school out of school hours (now built on I believe,I played football there countless times, including a Tower Block Versus Tower Block football match, which was well patronised by parents).
Peg.