The Broadway, a new link road from Dudley town centre to Sedgley, was also laid out to include more than 200 private houses.
The King Arthur closed in 2011 and after demolition following an arson attack, the building stood empty until Aldi opened on the site in 2016.
[2] Most of the people living in the council houses on the Priory Estate were rehoused from town centre slum clearances.
They were generally pleased with living in new houses which had gardens, electricity, hot and cold running tap water, bathrooms, toilets, a solid fuel boiler, with kitchens and an adjacent pantry.
The homes of elderly people were targeted most frequently by vandals and other criminals; in 1991, a plank of wood was hurled through the window of a room in which a 90-year-old woman was sleeping.
Edwards went on to play 18 times for England as well as winning two Football League championships with Manchester United, before he died in 1958 at the age of 21 from injuries sustained in the Munich air disaster.
[3] After his death, a stained glass window was dedicated to Edwards at St Francis' Parish Church at the junction of Laurel Road and Poplar Crescent.
Lady Astor opened a nursery unit in a corrugated iron building on the site on 8 March 1938, the first of its kind in the Dudley area, with most local schools not following suit until the 1970s and some still lacking such facilities to this day.
On 2 March 2006 a consultation firm employed by Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council recommended the demolition of between 40 and 100 per cent of 260 homes on the northern part of the estate.
As the rehousing gathered pace throughout 2007 and 2008, empty properties on the estate were regularly targeted by vandals and arsonists, as were a number of vehicles parked in the area.
The redeveloped estate, which includes a mix of private and public sector housing, has a completely redesigned road layout and new street names.
[7] On another part of the estate, anti-social behaviour was creating so much trouble that one family gave an interview to the Express and Star regional newspaper openly criticising the local council for failing to respond to their demands for a transfer.
[9] Also in March 2004, a 90-year-old widow on the Estate criticised a judge for failing to hand out a prison sentence to the heroin addict and career criminal who broke into her house and stole £80 from her purse.
[10] In April 2006, an arson attack caused severe damage to the Duncan Edwards public house in Priory Road.
[11] The building has since been demolished and plans have already been unveiled for the site to be developed for housing and retail, but construction work has yet to start.
The estate also became a popular destination for fly tippers and joyriders dumping stolen cars in the run up to its demolition.
House repairs weren't being carried out efficiently, the local youth centre was rarely open and the estate office had closed leaving residents without cars to travel a long distance to pay their rent.