The New Hall Estate is the older of the two major private

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s named after

New Hall Manor New Hall Manor is a medieval manor house, now used as a hotel, in Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, England. It is claimed to be one of the oldest inhabited moated houses in Britain,''Walmley and its surroundings'' (Chapter II: ''New Hall, New H ...

in the Royal Town of

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in the

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. The newer being

New Hall Manor Estate The New Hall Manor Estate is the younger of the two major housing estates named after New Hall Manor in Walmley, West Midlands. The other estate is the New Hall Estate. It was built around 2000 and half was built by one company and the other half ...

. It was built in a number of phases beginning in the 1980s by

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with the final phase (Granary Lane) built in the late 1990s, on land which was formerly part of Newhall Farm formerly owned by

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Holdings. It is a

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s and a mix of privately owned, detached, semi detached and town houses, with two areas of smaller houses, flats and studio apartments. The construction of the estate was considered one of the most complicated housing projects of the decade in England due to the

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of the land on which some of the houses were built on. The estate can be accessed via Walmley Road onto Sir Alfreds Way, named after Sir

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or via the top of Reddicap Hill onto Betteridge Drive or via the bottom of Reddicap Hill onto Lisures Drive. The start of Lisures Drive follows the path of the old Newhall Drive which was the access road to Newhall Farm which then continued across farmland to

now New Hall Hotel, the Farm was demolished and new houses built in its place on Newhall Drive, which is now accessed off the bottom of Lisures Drive. The estate borders

New Hall Valley Country Park New Hall Valley Country Park is a country park located in New Hall Valley between Walmley, Wylde Green and Pype Hayes in the Sutton Coldfield area of north Birmingham. It is the first new country park in the United Kingdom, UK for over a decade. ...

with access to the park from Fledburgh Drive, Newhall Farm Close and the footpath linking the two roads. The Estate contains many old trees covered under tree protection orders (TPO 313 and TPO 343), including Homewood, accessed from Sir Alfreds way or Preston Avenue, an Old Oak Woodland. The estates street lighting was upgraded in 2013 to white eco friendly LED lamppostsBirmingham News Room
/ref> The cutting edge lights not only reduce carbon emissions but are brighter than traditional lights, and enable operators to control and adjust their levels remotely. Residents have reported feeing safer when walking down previously poorly lit streets as the LED lights allow a wider spectrum of colours to be seen and facial features to be distinguished.

Communications

When built the estate was wired with underground feeds by

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, therefore there are no telephone poles. The Estate was later cabled by Birmingham Cable, which was then taken over by

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, then

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and now

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. The Estate was enabled for BT

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Fibre Optic Broadband in 2013, therefore there is a high availability of Super Fast Broadband throughout the estate from multiple suppliers. New Hall Estate - Home Wood

Schools

The Estate sits in the Catchment areas of three Sutton Secondary Schools,

Plantsbrook School Plantsbrook School, (formerly Riland Bedford High School), is a secondary school with academy status located in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, England. The school achieved an "Outstanding" Ofsted status once in 2012. The most recent ratin ...

Fairfax Academy Fairfax Academy (formerly Fairfax School) is a secondary school with academy status in the Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield, in north Birmingham. The school was established in 1959. The school has a sixth-form, with a new sixth-form centre whic ...

, a secondary school in Sutton Coldfield, Englandl and

John Willmott School John Willmott School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, England. There are 1,186 students on roll, of whom 230 are in the sixth form. Students from a White British background repr ...

and in the Catchment Areas of Newhall Primary School, Holland House Infant & Nursery School and Town Junior School, in certain Years when the catchment areas are wide: Whitehouse Common Primary School and The Deanery in Walmley.

Communications

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