Re: Re: [OT] : Affordable housing competition

[Mal Lansell <mal@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Damn - I thought housing that ugly had been left back in the 70's. What
a bunch of unimaginative crap.

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I'm firmly of the belief, (and heading rapidly off-topic) that the
solution to housing "problems" isn't to build ever smaller rabbit
hutch
starter homes, but to flood the higher end of the market with spacious
detached properties. The price of the smallest houses will probably
always float up to the level that the average first time buyer can just
about afford, so by building "affordable" housing all we do is
fill the
country with undesirable micro-huts for everyone to live in. On the
other hand, if we were to build sufficient large houses for the top end
of the market, that would depress prices from above. The long-term
result of that would still be a bottom end that was only just within
reach of a first time buyer, but that bottom end would consist of decent
sized family homes instead of pokey hovels.

</rant>

Time to think outside the (Barratt) box, perhaps.



Mal


mouserdrip15 wrote:

>Here we go m8
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>Rob
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>English Partnerships has chosen nine winners in deputy prime minister
>John Prescott's competition to design a £60,000 house.
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>The winners of the second stage of the competition now invited to
>work up designs for homes on 10 public sector sites are:
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>Barratt Developments – with Advance Housing, Midsummer Housing
>Association and HTA Architects
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>Geoffrey Osborne
>George Wimpey – with Richard Rogers Partnership
>Northern Edge – with Three Rivers Housing, Yorkshire Housing, South
>Yorkshire Housing Association, Tees Valley Housing Group and
>MacKellar Architects
>Redrow
>SIXTYK Consortium – with Crest Nicholson and Kingspan
>The Countryside Consortium – with Countryside Properties, Hyde Group,
>Acton Housing Association, Metropolitan Housing Housing Trust,
>Presentation and PCKO Architects
>Westbury
>William Verry
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>The winners now have until October 4 to submit proposals for the
>first four sites, in Milton Keynes, Northampton, Maidstone and Leeds.
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>EP will choose overall winners of the competition by the end of the
>year
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>To view the winning designs click here www.designformanufacture.info
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