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I suspect this is probably true on the outskirts of most British cities, at least the ones away from the conurbation of Greater London.
I'm not suggesting us "townies" come and spoil your little idyll, just that other small ones can be built without any major disruption to the existing status quo. A slightly more dispersed population, that's all. Nicer for everyone
It's the planning laws that have messed us all up, therefore restricting supply whilst demand goes up. Peoples' lack of revolt against house price increases has assisted. The Irish messed this up most of all - getting houses using loans up to 10 times their salary. At least the Uk was only crazy enough to go up to 6 times.
The planning laws seem to work against quality of life of the majority: since active planning regulation after WW2, the average house size and plot size has got smaller and smaller, now one of the smallest in the western world, and anything outside an urban area has been almost impossible to build on unless you are minted. You can have planning permission refused because the house is not "sustainable" which means "not on a bus route". Are we ever going back to a public-transport dominated society??
We need lots of new houses, all over the place, at prices proportional to building cost unless they are somewhere really special.- many people don't know how cheap it is to build a house. about £100k will build a large 4 bed bungalow, £80-90k will build a pair of semis
There used to be regulations about the minimum amount of floor space etc. I think these were abandoned during the 1980s, but I can't put a definite date on it.
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
What can you do with this wood? *Unzips fly*