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'Dog kennel' flats in Barnet will be 40% smaller than Travelodge room

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    'Dog kennel' flats in Barnet will be 40% smaller than Travelodge room

    "Hundreds of tiny studio flats, many smaller than a budget hotel room, are to be squeezed into an eleven-story block in north London as its developer takes advantage of the government’s relaxation of planning regulations.

    Plans for Barnet House, used by the London borough of Barnet’s housing department, reveal that 96% of the 254 proposed flats will be smaller than the national minimum space standards of 37 sq metres (44 sq yards) for a single person.

    The tiniest homes will be 16 sq metres – 40% smaller than the average Travelodge room. They are legal because of government deregulation designed to promote the conversion of underused office space to help meet housebuilding targets.

    In the surrounding area, studio flats of a similar scale to most planned at Barnet House sell for around £180,000 and rent for around £800 per month.

    Office buildings in Croydon have also been converted into studios with floor areas of as little as 15 sq metres under the Tory deregulation. Housing experts have attacked the relaxation of planning regulations as a “race to the bottom”, but ministers insist the measure is helping to deliver vital new housing, and point out that more than 10,000 new homes were created from office buildings last year."

    Source: https://www.theguardian.com/society/...ravelodge-room


    #2
    Bust!
    "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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      #3
      You missed the "Damn those thick Brexiters" line you like to add to irrelevant and pointless posts.

      HTH BIDI

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        #4
        Originally posted by AtW View Post
        "Hundreds of tiny studio flats, many smaller than a budget hotel room, are to be squeezed into an eleven-story block in north London as its developer takes advantage of the government’s relaxation of planning regulations.

        Plans for Barnet House, used by the London borough of Barnet’s housing department, reveal that 96% of the 254 proposed flats will be smaller than the national minimum space standards of 37 sq metres (44 sq yards) for a single person.

        The tiniest homes will be 16 sq metres – 40% smaller than the average Travelodge room. They are legal because of government deregulation designed to promote the conversion of underused office space to help meet housebuilding targets.

        In the surrounding area, studio flats of a similar scale to most planned at Barnet House sell for around £180,000 and rent for around £800 per month.

        Office buildings in Croydon have also been converted into studios with floor areas of as little as 15 sq metres under the Tory deregulation. Housing experts have attacked the relaxation of planning regulations as a “race to the bottom”, but ministers insist the measure is helping to deliver vital new housing, and point out that more than 10,000 new homes were created from office buildings last year."

        Source: https://www.theguardian.com/society/...ravelodge-room



        Cheap at half the price and just what the doctor ordered for most Londoners...........serves them right for voting Remain!!
        “The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”

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          #5
          Originally posted by shaunbhoy View Post
          Cheap at half the price and just what the doctor ordered for most Londoners...........serves them right for voting Remain!!
          Croydon is a cheaper part of Greater London....
          "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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            #6
            Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
            Croydon is a cheaper part of Greater London....
            And with a welcoming neighbourhood.

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              #7
              When applying to do Architecture the head of the school was telling me about a development of flats in Manchester where the brochure was shot using 3/4 size furniture. When the new owners tried to get their furniture in they found it wouldn't fit.

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                #8
                Brexit will no-doubt result in further degradation of already pretty bad building regulations in the UK

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
                  And with a welcoming neighbourhood.

                  Is that ginger Kev at the back?
                  http://www.cih.org/news-article/disp...housing_market

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Eirikur View Post
                    Brexit will no-doubt result in further degradation of already pretty bad building regulations in the UK
                    Of course it will. I am sure the malevolent tampering of building regulations is right up there on the wishlist.

                    Keep 'em coming muttonhead!!

                    “The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”

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