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Originally Posted by garinda
I remember much of the stone built terraced housing in Church was demolished in the seventies, and new, 'better' housing replaced it.
Thirty years on, the replacement, 'better' housing has had to be demolished.
My house was built in 1870, and will still be here in sixty years time, when it reaches it's bicentennial.
I rather doubt if many modern built houses will still be standing in two hundred years.
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It's this obsessive 'look at our shiny new housing programme what we we built, we did that, us, we did it' that rankles me.
You've hit the nail on the head and sooner or later we're going to regret the demolition of so many terraces as the vast majority are extremely well-built houses.
Find me a new house with a chimney. I'm in the process of having my fireplaces opened up for the installation of stoves and from listening to the chimney sweep I am certainly not alone. The increasing number of smoky pots in winter is also testament to the fact that people are going back to solid fuel.
Oops, shouldn't have said that.
'There will be a 50% increase in tax on solid fuels....'