I know this is off topic.
I do honestly think that it is time for ED to really consider the purpose and use of The White family as a unit and if they want to retain them they have got to find some other way than having them only ever involved in something to do with

either directly or indirectly.
I would actually have thought in reality the family in the 'Big House' in a village the size of Emmerdale wouldn't have as much impact as that, as nowadays the houses and estates like that would have been taken over and run as a Hotel or a Golf course or converted into apartments.