Future Standards of Housing.....

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

sjaypink wrote: »

But most £24k trailers- used as a permanent home- last maybe 10-15 years? And houses last... well... a lot longer

No, pretty sure that most trailers, with proper maintenance, will last 30 years or more.

And in fairness, there are plenty of cheap 60's and 70's houses now being demolished as they are past the end of their useful life.

nearlynew

The standard of debate and quality of argument on this board has fallen recently.

This thread surely must be the low point.

sjaypink

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

No, pretty sure that most trailers, with proper maintenance, will last 30 years or more.

And in fairness, there are plenty of cheap 60's and 70's houses now being demolished as they are past the end of their useful life.

I know that trailers on sites here are shipped out after about 10 years. There are some much older ones on a local construction site where the workers live Mon-Fri, and I know travellers have older ones, but I just cannot see they are a viable alternative in any shape or form.

The NIMBYs go mental if a smart development is proposed, can you imagine there ever being approval for 'residential trailer site for those on low incomes'

Graham_Devon

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

No, pretty sure that most trailers, with proper maintenance, will last 30 years or more.

And in fairness, there are plenty of cheap 60's and 70's houses now being demolished as they are past the end of their useful life.

LOL hamish, you seem absolutely desperate to find another way of keeping house prices higher and higher.

Trailer parks aint it my friend. Aint gonna happen while the UK has a welfare system and a better homes scheme. End of. No matter how long your tin hut or washed up shipping container may last in terms of years.

nearlynew

Is this how desperate HPi cheeleaders have become?

Trailer parks the answer to the problem of unaffordable housing?



I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

dopester

Whatever happens... I'll be buying a mobile solution home. Probably a traditional home, when I've got my bearings on which areas of the UK aren't going to turn into economic decaying wastelands, and a mobile solution home.

The Policy Exchange reckon it's time to abandon failing Northern Cities - and the high costs of supporting them and all the infrastructure - and go for densification down South. I don't believe there is a shortage of homes, think it's madness to build new homes in areas where local economies are seriously beginning to fail.