An area of houses built and rented out to tenants by a local council.
〈英〉（地方委员会建造并出租的）市建房屋区
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I wasn't the only one on my council estate with talent, but I had the chance to do something positive.
His father was comfortable rather than wealthy, proud of owning his own house on the border of a council estate.
I come from a simple background on a council estate in Birmingham and went to a comprehensive school.
Brought up in a council estate by parents who couldn't afford to pay for lessons, he worked on a local farm in return for the chance to ride their ponies.
One is a housewife on a council estate in Ayrshire while the other lives in a leafy suburb in the English midlands.
My favourite was the council estate that was refurbished from top to bottom - and then demolished.
What people don't know is it was a 1970s council estate.
Growing up in a council estate in Dundee, his first passion was music.
People on a former council estate are taking over responsibility for their area after signing a landmark agreement.
Having grown up on a council estate, he is seen by many as the ideal candidate, with a broad appeal.
Later they moved a mile away to the Eastmoor council estate.
He said the experience was ‘incredible and far removed from my days growing up on a council estate in Salford’.
Are they a reminder of the council estate where I grew up, where many families owned such decorative statuettes?
These things never seemed to happen on our council estate.
He's from a Liverpool council estate, like lots of footballers.
I was transfixed by the thought of the young vandals from the neighbouring council estate breaking in at night.
‘It's quite a step for a boy who grew up on a council estate in Seacroft,’ he said.
The canal gentrifies all that it touches, even the harshest council estate, but you sense that local architects haven't repaid the compliment.
The clouds break as I step onto a nearby council estate.
He grew up on a council estate where his mother would tell him stories of family connections with hunting stretching back generations.