Editing Leatherhead (section)

===Residential development===
Leatherhead began to expand at the start of the 20th century and the population grew from in 4,694 in 1901 to 5,491 in 1911.<ref>{{harvnb|Spindler|2016|p=5}}</ref> New housing developments were built between 1900 and 1905 in Fairfield, Highlands and Kingston Roads, and Queen Anne's Garden. Later in the decade, houses were constructed in Copthorne, Clinton, Reigate and Woodville Roads, Kingston Avenue and St Nicholas Hill.<ref>{{harvnb|Spindler|2016|p=8}}</ref>

The first [[council house|council housing]] in the town, a development of 59 houses in Poplar Road, was built by Leatherhead UDC in 1921. Preference for rehousing was given to [[veteran|ex-servicemen]] and their families. In 1925, 90 council houses were constructed in Kingston Road.<ref name=Vardey_1988_p231>{{harvnb|Vardey|1988|p=231}}</ref> Private residential developments also occurred around the same time, including the construction of the St Mary's Road estate, on the site of the former Elm Bank mansion, south of the town centre.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.leatherheadlocalhistory.org.uk/miscellany/potted-history-33.pdf |title= Elm Bank House (St Mary's Road Estate) Leatherhead |last= Powell |first= Goff |publisher= Leatherhead & District Local History Society |access-date= 3 November 2021 }}</ref>

The Givons Grove estate, to the south of the town, was developed in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Originally a constituent of Thorncroft Manor, it was an area of arable land, known as "Gibbons Farm", named after a prominent local family.<ref name=Givons_Grove>{{cite journal |last1= Fortescue |first1= SED |year= 1983 |title= Givons Grove |url= https://leatherheadhistoryarchive.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/VOL_4_NO_7_1983.pdf |journal= Proceedings of the Leatherhead & District Local History Society |volume= 4 |issue= 7 |pages= 188–190 |access-date= 4 February 2021 }}</ref>{{#tag:ref|Givons Grove House was built in the late 1780s for Henry Boulton, the then leaseholder of Thorncroft Manor and the owner of the Pachesham estate. The house was later occupied for a short time by Sir William Altum, but remained in the ownership of the Boulton family until 1859. In 1865, it was sold to [[Thomas Grissell]], the owner of [[Norbury Park]].<ref name=Givons_Grove/>|group=n}} In 1919, the estate was bought by the aircraft manufacturer, [[Humphrey Verdon Roe]], whose wife, [[Marie Stopes]], would live at Norbury Park for 20 years from 1938.<ref name=Givons_Grove/> It was sold to a consortium of developers in 1927, who divided the land into plots for housing.<ref name=Vardey_1988_p234>{{harvnb|Vardey|1988|p=234}}</ref> Similarly in 1935, Yarm Court was sold and the estate developed for housing.<ref name=Vardey_1988_p317>{{harvnb|Vardey|1988|p=317}}</ref>

Following the end of the Second World War, new housing was constructed to the north of the town centre, along Cleeve, Kingston and Copthorne Roads, to replace properties damaged by bombing.<ref name=Vardey_1988_p250>{{harvnb|Vardey|1988|p=250}}</ref>