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Green Way is an attractive collection of semi-detached bungalows in the centre of Hartley, mostly built in 1955-7. Like Springcroft and Old Downs, it was built in the flurry of development in mid-1950s Hartley. The exception are numbers 2 and 4 which were built later in 1966 by Vanguard Construction Limited. Green Way is built on the land of just one house - Clifton, Ash Road. Once part of Middle Farm, which by the beginning of the 20th century had been absorbed into Fairby Farm. Smallowners Limited acquired most of Hartley in 1912 and set about breaking up the farms into smallholdings. Clifton was plot 167 and comprised of 3¼ acres. It was sold much later than most of the other holdings, in 1928 to Percy William Dennis, the son of the owner of Elm Villa, further up Ash Road (now demolished and replaced with Villefranche). He paid £418 15s 0d. In 1949 Mr W O'Riordan obtained temporary planning permission to have a greyhound track in the back garden of Mr Dennis's house. But already the council were looking to allow development, because that was the reason they wouldn't give permament planning permission. Mr Dennis first applied for building in 1953. His original plans were somewhat modest - then he wanted to build an estate road and 3 pairs of bungalows, but the council refused it because of the poor sight lines caused by the high holly hedge on the north side of the junction and the curve of Ash Road. At 300 feet, they felt the road junction was too close to that of Stack Lane. So Mr Dennis went back to the drawing board and came up with a plan acceptable to the council the following year, although the parish council had complained it was "contrary to the character of the village". The bungalows were completed in 1955 and one of them was sold for £2,250. Links
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