In Heaton Village, a neighbourhood of detached and semi-detached houses north-west of Manningham, the number of Pakistanis trebled between 1991 and 2001.

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While detached bungalows were down 15.4% and semi-detached bungalows by 14.5%, detached houses performed much better and only fell by 1.8% in the three-month period.

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But along the motorways and railway lines there is another England of concrete and glass, of shopping malls and new semi-detached houses, each with two cars in the drive.

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Ministers announced last year that they wanted a three-year relaxation of the planning rules to allow single-storey extensions of up to eight metres for detached houses and six metres for other houses to be built without planning consent being required.

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Flats, semi-detached and terraced houses attracted offers over the asking price during that period, S1 said.

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The 22 houses will be detached and semi-detached homes, all with gardens and most with garages.

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Six firefighters wearing breathing apparatus tackled the detached garage blaze, which spread to houses on either side of the building, the fire service said.

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