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Slightly digressing on house design; Britcliffe is right in one respect, acres of clone like Council Housing doesn't paint a good picture of Hyndburn but he is wrong in failing to understand that desirable estates like Fern Gore are less a blight than the private sector cramming in X nos on a small site built out of cheapo materials without design or thought and as clone like as council housing. Where Council housing meant 3 proper bedrooms, or even 4, and private means 1 normal, one small and a 3rd the size of cupbaord. And how many modern brick housing, less than 20 year old, suffers from shaling, damp, poor guttering, rotten windows, cracked flags? There are lots of issues to consider so we don't make the mistakes of the past.

There is such a thing as the Building Regulations, all houses are built to whatever version was in force at the time, the building regs of today are far more strict than they were when Fern Gore was built. Failings in the current council houses are not due to the poor build, but to the lack of maintenance and upgrading required to keep them up to modern standards, as with private build the same applies.