[2] A lower, four-storey block runs along the other side of a continuous pedestrian walkway, known as Rowley Way, serving both terraced rows of buildings.

Maisonettes also occupy the top two levels of the larger eight-storey building opposite, with entrance from a walkway on the 7th floor that runs the entire length of the structure.

Since the early 1950s, tower blocks surrounded by public open space had been the method of choice for councils to replace terraced housing in poor condition while keeping the same high population density.

[3] The Alexandra Road Estate may be seen as Brown's culminating, and largest scale, effort to apply these principles to the design of high-density public housing.

The Fleet Road project, begun about the same time and consisting of 71 houses, a shop, and a studio, arranged in parallel terraced rows, was a further application of the idea.

Although there were indeed a significant delay and an increase in cost of approximately four times the originally commissioned tender, the inquiry may have been politically motivated.

[5] The outcome of the inquiry published in seven reports mainly made "the apparent failure of the councillors to understand the contractual obligations that they had undertaken"[6] responsible for the mismanagement and was not successful in blaming the architect as had been hoped by some.

"[citation needed] After a continuing career including international town planning and post-graduate teaching, Brown retrained as a fine artist, to which occupation he devoted his retirement.