From: "Terry Harper" 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: why so many houses now being sold without onward chain?
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 20:41:06 +0000 (UTC)
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"derek"  wrote in message
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> The current fad for high density brown field developments has led to
> people on our 1976 housing estate selling off abound 9 metres square
> of their BY to a builder who, amazingly, has got permission for a pair
> of 3 story semis. The original site is on a corner so the semis will
> get access to the road but have no front garden and no front doors
> just an up & over garage door, they appear to have been built on a 12
> foot plot. Just a thought but with our aging population I would have
> thought there would have greater demand for bungalows rather than
> houses with 2 flights of stairs.

My daughter's first house was a Victorian workman's cottage, in a terrace
with the walls built on 12 ft centres. Originally they were two up and two
down with a staircase between front and back rooms, with access from the
back kitchen. Now extended at the rear with a kitchen downstairs and a
bathroom upstairs. It did have gardens front and rear, though.
-- 
Terry Harper
http://www.terry.harper.btinternet.co.uk/