from an EDA member:

Sunday Times Homes supplement, article p.4

...”The Royal Institute of British Architects (Riba) has been campaigning to introduce minimum space standards for new-build homes; and, last week, it convinced the government to take action. Property developers will now be required to stop constructing shoeboxes. Despite this, the UK has the smallest new-build houses in the whole of western Europe. The latest Riba research has revealed, for example, that Yorkshire – a county with one of the lowest population densities in England – has been building the smallest new-builds in the country.”

I wonder whether they have visited Cranbrook? If the shoeboxes are to be bigger in future, perhaps the current residents will kick themselves and wish they had waited for a larger “footprint”.