People I’ve spoken to often say that the boom in Council House building post war in the 1950s was mostly welcomed by those that lived in the villages.
Several reasons for that I suspect.
Population had been depleted by two world wars.
Villages were obviously smaller then and ‘new’ blood was needed to sustain local schools, shops and pubs.
Quality of existing village housing was pretty poor back then, mostly farm labourers cottages.
Council houses were well built, with a decent plot of land, & without the stigma of council housing today.
In general the road infrastructure that was already in place could cope with say a maximum of one car per household.
UK population in 1950 was approx 50 million, today, 66 million and projected to be 73 million by 2040, so absolutely we need to build more houses today but understandably nobody wants them in their backyard. Personally I think it would be fairer to communities if each village/town took an increase of new housing of say 10% which includes genuine council houses to rent.
I fail to see how the A40 west of Oxford is going to cope with the current proposals.
Anyway I’ve diverted away from the purposes of the opening post. Apologies.