The company’s tiny houses start at $25,000 — that’s for a basic kit to build the house yourself. To buy an already-built house, it will cost up to $75,000.

A planning application to build two three-bedroom houses has been resubmitted. The proposal is for the land behind 1 Lime Kiln Lane, Holbury.

But there was once a time, about 85 years ago, when you could buy a mail-order home from a catalog, called a "kit home", and have it shipped to you to build yourself — for less than half of that ...