Fewer rooms in new homes
A trend towards building houses with more rooms stopped during 1979-80, according to the Statistics Department. Of dwellings built in 197980, 23 per cent had fewer than six rooms, compared with only 7 per cent of the dwellings built during the 19705, said the Government Statistician (Dr J. H. Darwin) in a report based on the 197980 dwellings built and dwellings bought surveys. Dwellings built or bought for owner-occupation in 197980 were less likely to be
over-crowded than the overall housing stock. Three per cent of these dwellings (compared with 17 per cent of the housing stock in the 1976 census) had one or more persons a room. Dr Darwin said that it was quite likely that this difference arose because couples would tend to buy dwellings according to the number of children they expected to have, so that some of these dwellings would become comparatively more crowded as children were added to the family.
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