Built between 1973 and 1985 these municipal housing development replaced post war prefabricated dwellings shown on the 1949 OS 1:1250 map 43/3984SW. Mansfield Drive is of much higher density comprising terrace blocks and low rise 'old people's flats' (OS landline data), whilst Carpenter Drive comprises semi detached and courtyard dwellings. Previously within the surveyed enclosure of Woodthorpe Common, probably resulting from the parliamentary award for Handsworth of 1808 (English 1985)