Some are still rather sniffy about ‘ex-council houses’, as we called them in less PC days. However, most are still standing and in pretty good nick, 50 or 60 years after the last ‘we need lots more homes’ building explosion. Although science and technology mean that I can, at the press of a button, see and talk to my son up a mountain in Vietnam on a Sunday morning, we seem to have gone downhill in old tech stuff. Most medieval peasants could construct a shelter which might keep them dry and last through a couple of winters. Not, it would appear, Bovis Homes.
