Going back to the mid 1940's (iirc
) during the development of London Airport now lhr,it was found there was a shortage of housing within easy commute to the airport.
So many properties were built for airways staff in stanwell and the surrounding areas ,these have now been absorbed into social housing or sold off.
Exert from HACC. In its early years, at a time of acute housing shortage, the Committee gave a great deal of practical support to securing adequate housing provision for airport based staff in local areas. With assistance to what became British Airways Staff Housing Association, some 3,500 homes were provided by 1952, many of them in Stanwell, Heston and Feltham.
sorry a little of topic.