Bungalow builds are on the decline, are you a fan of them ?

I think it's such a shame. Plus bungalows being turned into houses it shouldn't be aloud

I'd happily live in a bungalow with a nice little outdoor porch and garden.

We live in a bungalow! It is a nice shape, nor your usual 'box'. We have upgraded our properties over the years and decided that it was time to downsize and get rid of the stairs before we broke our necks falling down them

We thoroughly updated this place when we bought it, electrics, plumbing, decorating, oil tank, roof etc.

As you say, it's all very well for that 'proper Charlie' he has got more houses/dwellings now than I have ever had and servants galore to do all the work. He is talking from a most privileged position, I'll bet he has never even cleaned a toilet! What a pompous, out of touch, idiot. (Charlie - not you T)

I live in a bungalow and I’m not elderly or disabled (although some arthritis). We moved here nearly 20 years ago with our four young children at the time. The reason we loved it so much was that the third bedroom was not a box room. We then converted it to a four bedroom. I love having no stairs and being able to use the rooms how I want them, either bedrooms or living areas.

I found similar in the bungalows i had E, i was only young then but still found living on one level better

And as you say the rooms are normally more spacious

Yes ,we lived in two bungalows when young and fit then got a house and within a few years my mum had to live downstairs and then the other two have great difficulty getting upstairs,wish we still had one,and it's awful that they and smaller house are not built ,just huge expensive ones

Better than high rise flats in my opinion.

My brother was looking at one recently although did have a large bedroom inside the roof presumably converted from the loft space. It had a lot of land attached too. Not sure if he is still looking at that one.

It totally makes sense to build up and not across nowadays with the cost of land being what it is. I can see 2 or 3 story houses with tiny gardens being the norm for those who have enough money to avoid being in a flat. The UK is overpopulated and the population is still increasing I believe so we need to shoe horn more people in somehow. Bungalows obviously make little sense with the population situation. In my local area I've seen a few homes with long gardens who have sold part of their garden to developers to build a new home on and they have got a tidy sum out of it by sacrificing some of their garden. We probably have 30 million more since the beginning of the 20th Century now. Maybe we will have doubled in population in 2050 compared to the beginning of the 20th Century. Twice as many people on a smallish Island is going to need some clever thinking and we will be losing part of our coastline with the rising sea levels. Then think about the fact that many food producing countries like Spain will likely be producing far less produce in the future. Global warming will disrupt food supplies so we will need to produce more food in the UK despite less land available for crops. We need to find ways of making humans occupy less space and be happy with smaller homes.

I know its unpopular with many but the old rates system where people paid their local tax based on the value of their home was both easy to collect and a strong motivator for people to live in small homes rather than lavish homes that occupied a lot of space. I believe we need the rates system back. At the moment we often have the poor subsidising the rich because the banding of council tax is so close together and there are many extra costs to providing services to homes that have large areas of land and on the outskirts of towns and cities or in villages.

Writing all that I still think the bungalows that exist already will survive rather than be redeveloped I just think new bungalows will be very rare.

We've been looking for a bungalow because I struggle getting up and down stairs, but they are so expensive and on short numbers