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New Build Houses - Size and Density
thescouselander
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Me and the Mrs decided to go and have a look at a new build development up the road today since we are thinking about trying to find a bigger place that our current house.
Since we live in a relatively modern house (built around 2000) we are used to the diminutive size of modern housing but today was a real eye opener. We went to look at a 4 bedroom house but we couldn't see how two of the rooms were usable - there would have been a choice between a single bed or furniture but not both. Even the master bedroom was smaller than what we currently have!!!
Secondly I vas very alarmed at the high density of the plots. I thought the houses round here were built close together but the ones we looked at today appeared to be two or three times more densely spaced. This proved to be a problem later as when we decided to leave as the parking area at the show home got jammed as someone struggled to manoeuvre in the totally inadequate space.
Having looked briefly as a few other developments it seems the one we went to today was quite typical.
The question for me is how are the builders managing to sell any of this stuff? Surely nobody thinks building houses at this density is acceptable? Are people really willing to part with substantial money for this sort of thing or are they just taken in by the bling of the show homes? !!!!!! is going on?
Since we live in a relatively modern house (built around 2000) we are used to the diminutive size of modern housing but today was a real eye opener. We went to look at a 4 bedroom house but we couldn't see how two of the rooms were usable - there would have been a choice between a single bed or furniture but not both. Even the master bedroom was smaller than what we currently have!!!
Secondly I vas very alarmed at the high density of the plots. I thought the houses round here were built close together but the ones we looked at today appeared to be two or three times more densely spaced. This proved to be a problem later as when we decided to leave as the parking area at the show home got jammed as someone struggled to manoeuvre in the totally inadequate space.
Having looked briefly as a few other developments it seems the one we went to today was quite typical.
The question for me is how are the builders managing to sell any of this stuff? Surely nobody thinks building houses at this density is acceptable? Are people really willing to part with substantial money for this sort of thing or are they just taken in by the bling of the show homes? !!!!!! is going on?
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Horses for courses, I guess. Right back when I bought my first house, I had a choice between a Victorian terrace with two double bedrooms and a long garden, or a new build with a barely-double bedroom and what could only be described as a decent-sized cupboard. However, the newbuild came without horsehair plaster, vintage electrics and a 30 year old boiler. Personally, I'd always go for more space, but I don't blame those who have no interest in a fixer-upper.import this0
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Yeah, I know what you mean - I like the idea of a new build but if it's impossible to live in it whats the point?0
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thescouselander wrote: »Yeah, I know what you mean - I like the idea of a new build but if it's impossible to live in it whats the point?
None whatsoever. If you want the house to live in buy an old one that has been modernised.
The old song seems even more apt.
http://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/MALVINA/mr094.htmFew people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.0 -
We need substantially more properties in the UK.
We can achieve this by building smaller, higher density properties on brownfield sites, or by building on far more greenfield land.
Take your pick."When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty." - Thomas Jefferson0 -
MacMickster wrote: »We need substantially more properties in the UK.
We can achieve this by building smaller, higher density properties on brownfield sites, or by building on far more greenfield land.
Take your pick.
Why can't we build reasonable density housing on brown field sites? Also, if we're going to build on greenfield sites shouldn't we build high quality housing that actually meets the needs of the people who will live in them?0 -
MacMickster wrote: »We need substantially more properties in the UK.
We can achieve this by building smaller, higher density properties on brownfield sites, or by building on far more greenfield land.
Take your pick.
That's true, but a lower quality product, with a lower specification is usually cheaper than the existing market products.0 -
All to due with profit - pack em in and sit back and watch them all fall out springs to mind0
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MacMickster wrote: »We need substantially more properties in the UK.
We can achieve this by building smaller, higher density properties on brownfield sites, or by building on far more greenfield land.
Take your pick.
I think the issue is that we should not be building small family houses at all. It seems to me that the architects and planners create these homes for other people even though they do not want to live in them personally.
These days many single people buy a newe three bedroom house just because the houses are so small.Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.0 -
moneyinmypocket wrote: »All to due with profit - pack em in and sit back and watch them all fall out springs to mind
The density of housing on a development is dictated by the local authourity not the builders.0 -
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