I recall a derelict building to the right of Kwik Save (looking from the Cannock Road). I guess that's what was left of the complex.
Also a little mobile building sweet shop down that way too.
I can't help but think traffic flow into and out of the new houses might be an issue.
on Hillcroft Park, well I was born there so I guess they had houses by then. Oddly though they don't show on the 1970 (?) OS map. I guess they don't update everything each time. Island Green there - yes. But Mendip Avenue stops at the brow of the hill iirc.
Yes, derelict house by kwiksave location. Used to love exploring the servants quarters underneath and going up what was left of the grand staircase.
Also a house on Wildwood next to top of Radford bank. That featured in the papers as having witchcraft practised there. There were magic circle type drawings on the floor when we played in there. Always think of that seeing those new houses that were built on it ...
(Climax Blues Band used to practice in a community centre shed/hut like thing towards the right of Kwiksave as well a few years later)
Hillcroft park was still being built when Walton High School opened. Must have been 1967 when I was 11 and the first intake in Walton . Only our year and about 16 pupils in the year above and grew each year. Had to walk over a builders plank to get over a ditch into the side entrance off Selworthy drive.
Could have done with entrances for traffic on both Lichfield and Cannock Rds to share the traffic trying to get out of that new estate.