 Whinney Banks is bounded by West Lane and Newport to the north, the A19 dual-carriageway to the west, Linthorpe to the east and Acklam and Beckfield to the south.Whinney Banks was originally an estate of around 550 dwellings, built mostly in the 1930s and 1940s; it formed part of a wider expanse of social housing on the western boundary of Middlesbrough.Over a number of years the estate became unpopular, until, by the late 1990s, over a third of the properties were void.