Complex sentence: There was very little expansion of the village after 1850 until major growth in the late 1970s resulting in considerable uniformity among the historic building stock and a stark contrast with the post-war developments, which made little concession to the character or layout of the earlier buildings.
Split into simpler sentences: There was very little expansion of the village after 1850 until major growth in the late 1970s. This has resulted in considerable uniformity among the historic building stock and stark contrast with the post-war developments, which made little concession to the character or layout of the earlier buildings.