In spite of these constrains there was no trouble getting permission because the planning system, introducer in 1947, hadn't yet developed green belt teeth. Since then Oak Tree Cottage has been extended so that it now has five bedrooms and a garage. The price has leapt from no more than a few thousand pounds to £1.35 m.
The shortage of construction materials meant that builders scooped up London stock bricks , which were in plentiful suply on bombsites. "The bricks in this hourse are a variety of colours and some of them are black with soot," says Dewey.
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On Jackson-Stops'books in 1952, for example , was a house just outside. Reading with 194 acres, priced at £20,000. Another in Bucking-hamshire with 105 acres was £18,500 . A four-bedroom house in Sussex with one acre and "every modern convenience" was £7,500.
Prices had not yet been touched by the magic wand of supply and demand. Many preferred to rend - there was no stigma attached. So you could buy a large house then for less than the price of a good car today.
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