Sunday, Aug 16, 2009
UK has the smallest average room size in Europe
Auntie Pravda (aka the BBC): Room to swing a cat? Hardly
An interesting and for once truthful housing related report from the BBC. Apparently the size of the average room in a UK property is the smallest in Europe. No surprise there for regular HPCers who have coined the phrase SlaveBox to describe many of the new build flats around the UK. Globally we are only beaten on our efficient use of space by Lilliput and Smurfland, but the residents of those place don't mind as they are only 2 apples high.
Posted by mikelivingstone @ 09:37 AM (656 views) Add Comment
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1. britishblue said...
People in the UK place a lot of weight behind the number of bedrooms a house has. In the continent they look more closely at square metres of floor space. I have known people in the UK to build a stud wall (plasterboard and cheap timber) to divide a large bedroom costing less than a grand and the estate agents wack the value of the property up by 70k. In Europe this wouldnt add anything to the value. Hence builders in the UK have been trying to build smaller and small houses with the same number of bedrooms and almost non exisitant gardens.
2. japanese uncle said...
These are some of the complaints from residents of new-build developments surveyed by Cabe, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment.
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Did they buy these houses without looking? I mean blue print at least.
3. Jayk said...
Spot on BritishBlue (apart from the 70k figure, a slight exageration methinks).