A tale of 2 soap sets

What follows is the contrast between 2 settings for now defunct soaps. Brookside Channel 4's long running soap prided itself in the beginning as being more down to earth than it's rivals. No where was this more true than the soap's main filming location. An actual 13 house development was brought by Mersey Productions the makers of the soap, 6 were given over as the residence of the various character while the other 7 were taken up by the various other arms of productions like make up, editing, catering etc. Even after Brookside finished in 2003, the character houses were used for Channel 4's other (still running) soap Hollyoaks. However in recent years it has become an actual residential estate.
This brings us to the case of Eldorado the infamous BBC1 Euro soap. launched in 1992 and set around a small Spanish town it had it's own specially constructed set. Eldorado was plauged by various troubles such as bad acting, bad sound recording in houses with barley painted walls and numerous off screen troubles. Even after a radical overhaul the show was axed after just a year. Barring the odd pop promo and TV filming the town set has in effect become a ghost town. Perhaps to serve as a reminder of foolish hopes and ambitions.
I leave you to consider what was the best use of money.