How to get a house
Everybody knows we urgently need to build more homes, but how, when and where will this happen? WORLDbytes interviewed Ian Abley, an architect and manager of Audacity at the plotlands in Dunton, Essex where from the 1920s East End working class couples built cheap homes themselves. Could we do this now? Ian Abley argues we should collectively break the Town & Country Planning law of 1947 which made buying and building on redundant farmland, like the plotlands, illegal.
Recommended Links:
- Article by Ian Abley: Plotlands as a measure of affordability 75 years on
- More from Ian Abley: Googling plotlands
- Discussion on the Audacity website: Britain doesn’t add up
- More goodies on the Audacity website: Where to build in 2009
Related topics: Economy, Social Change
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SisterG said:
Interesting idea I’d be up for get a group together to buy a plot of redundant farmland and building on it…hmm seriously worth thinking about good stuff