Re: Re: Electrisave protocol / PC Interface

["Andy Davies" <dajdavies@xxxxxxxxx>]

What we need is decent design with decent sized gardens for those that
want
them, most of Britain's housing is crap and the current building trend
seems
to be about squashing tiny houses onto postage sized plots...

Instead of Gordon Brown backing the building of eco-villages by big house
builders, he should release all that land for self build

Andy

On 06/06/07, Mal Lansell <mal@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Smaller houses?  Are you mad?!!  ;-)  Most mainstream houses are
already
> so small that you can barely turn around without walking into a wall.
>
> What we need are big houses and lots of them.  Long term that would
> solve the house-price inflation problem by depressing them from above,
> and at the same time leave the country with a housing stock made of
nice
> places to live, rather than Prescott hutches.  Grrr!!!
>
> Besides, you need the extra space for all the gadgets :-)
>
>
> Chris Hunter wrote:
>
> > >cheaper to eat out ...
> >
> > 'wouldn't be surprised ... 'did the sums a few years ago & it
was
> > clear disposable crockery & cutlery etc made sense ... and
when you
> > add the fact we could all live in smaller houses if we took full
> > advantage of the digital revolution ... plus all the advantages
of
> > being more sociable, if we went out more ...
> >
> > Chris
> >
>


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