With World War Two raging, house building stopped resulting in a rise in homelessness. Families were forced to live in vacated army camps in Nissen huts. In 1945 a Slough borough surveyor inspected a prototype American bungalow, a prefabricated temporary home, and advised the council to build 100 of them. It is no coincidence that there are two roads called Lincoln Way and Washington Drive. Wimpey built 300 houses made of concrete slabs in Oldways Lane, which were also cheap and easy to construct.

During the late 1940s, the sites of Everitts Estate, St George's Crescent, Washington Drive and Oldways Lane were redeveloped with new permanent homes. This swallowed up the fields and meadows between the Bath Road and Cippenham Green.