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Buyers of new builds in UK paying for rabbit hutches

September 6, 2009 by admin  
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It has been reported that new build properties in the UK have the smallest rooms in all of Europe, and industry officials have said that consumers who are shelling out huge sums of money for these newer homes are basically paying for rabbit hutches.

According to a recent report new builds have been getting smaller and smaller, and the new build properties on offer today do not even offer buyers enough space to relax, cook, or have guests around and entertain.

The government’s design watchdog carried out a study that showed that new build properties were continuing to get smaller both in terms of room sizes and overall sizes.

Officials have also said that the reduction in the size of newer properties also shows how family sizes in Britain have been decreasing, with the average number of people in a family falling from 3.1 in the 1960s to 2.4 last year. According to the Office for National Statistics the average number of people per household now stands at just 1.9.

The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment stated in its report that private new homes that are built these days simply are not practical even for smaller families, and described them as being ‘too small for everyday life’.

Over two thousand homeowners were surveyed as part of the study, all of whom had purchased homes built between 2003 and 2006. Nearly 50 percent of them said that they did not even have enough room for all of their furniture.

Around 44 percent of those polled said that there was not enough room for children to play safely whilst food was being prepared, and most did not have the room for families to sit down and dine together. Officials have said that this could have other repercussions, impacting on health and well being or even on behaviour patterns.

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