Or, “Honey I shrunk the flat – and how! And you can bet they won’t be any cheaper than current apartments – just slightly more of them.
“Britain already builds the smallest homes in Europe. A one-bedroom flat averages at 500sq ft – about the size of a tube carriage – while Barwell’s favoured developer, Pocket Living, sells 400sq ft flats for a quarter of a million pounds apiece.
The Royal Institute of British Architects says that more than half of new houses built are too small for families to live in (it’s a bit of a mystery where all these “home-grown” workers our Brexit-mad government keeps going on about are actually going to, well, grow up).
The average home in Denmark is twice as big as one of ours already. It’s a shameful state of affairs unlikely to be remedied by one of the stupidest policy suggestions to come out of the housing crisis thus far”
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/05/housing-crisis-building-standards-size
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