It comprises approximately 1500 homes, primarily privately owned houses and bungalows, and a small number of low rise, three-storey flats.

To the north is Bestwood Country Park and to the east is another housing estate built in the late 1970s on the site of Home Farm.

Plans for a small parade of shops and a public house had been announced in 1966, built in 1969 and open for let by the end of that year, these originally included a branch of Martin the Newsagents, a post office, a grocers, a hairdressers, a Mace general store and the 'Big D' DIY store (closed 1987).

At the eastern end of the shops was the Charles II pub with two large murals depicting the former King (who had connections to the area in the 1600s) on the upper South and East facing walls.

An additional 'Grandways' supermarket was later built and opened for business in 1977 (taken over by 'Kwik Save' in 1991) but this was demolished and replaced with McCracken Close in the 2010s.