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Originally Posted by steeljack
Ken , you and me are going to fall out  , "much bigger than they are given credit for " a 2 up 2 down is 4 rooms , (unless there is a built on back kitchen) , the back bedroom has probably had a 60s grant which halved the size of the back bedroom , okay if you have 2/3 children of the same sex and you put them in bunk beds and want them to live like rats in a cage till one of them is old enough to leave home , think the days of families with four or five or more kids who went to Sunday Mass or Sunday school are long gone and what was acceptable then isn't now.
Lets not even get onto the size of the backyards which now under local dictats are required to hold 4 or 5 different 'dustbins' , or 2 bins and 3 recycling box's/bags indoors.
Be interesting to hear from Accy web users of a certain age who were raised in the 40/50s in multiple kid households how they managed the space in a 2 up 2 down  |
I won't try to change your mind then, but in my opinion you are wrong.
The terraced house I live in is considerably bigger than the three bedroom dormer bungalow that I grew up in and not much smaller than the four bedroom detached new build that we eventually moved to.
I suspect that the general perception is of tiny narrow houses rather than the actuality. Although my wife is keen to eventually find a big detached house we're hardly tripping over each other and there is more than enough room to accommodate extra people, which we frequently do.
Many people (certainly in this area) use the front parlour as an extra bedroom and the family living across from me have three teenage kids living with them. We use ours as a dining room and for my 30th birthday two years ago we had a party with 20+ people who were all comfortably seated in the two reception rooms.
The mad idea that we need to demolish all our terraced properties and replace them with new builds is seriously flawed. If you don't want to live in a terraced house then stay away from Hyndburn, it really is that simple.
82,000 people seem to quite like it.