Good Karma in 9,000 sq ft: 'Turn-key' home in Wagland has every luxury - including a £100k working cinema | Mail Online

Good Karma in 9,000 sq ft: 'Turn-key' home in Wagland has every luxury - including a £100k working cinema | Mail Online

This was a failsafe way to make money during the boom years: buy a plot of land in Cheshire's fashionable Wagland - Alderley Edge, Hale, Prestbury - flatten whatever was on it and build a detached suburban mansion with open-plan rooms and high-tech trimmings.

So many perfectly good Edwardian and Twenties suburban houses were demolished that there were howls of pain from locals - particularly in Alderley Edge - deploring the speculative jamboree.

A drive along the fancier residential streets of Hale shows the mixed results of the boom. Few of the modern houses warrant a second look, many are too large for their plots and planners have imposed a stultifying conformity in design - frequently insisting on Arts and Crafts copies of the original houses that were knocked down.