Given the recent discussions about modern housing, here's an interesting link showing some of the designs put forward for the government's competition to build homes for £60000.
It's a bit hard to judge the designs because the images are quite small and most don't even show the interior. I think, purely on exterior appearance I like the Geoffrey Osbourne and William Verry designs. But what does everyone else think?
Here's another alternative set of designs that weren't part of the competition:
Personally I like these houses, the materials are modern and effective. There's loads of them near me in the Millenium Village in Greenwich. Trouble is the price of the land. In South East London a small plot will be in excess of £100,000 and the MV in excess of £180,000. Ok that's London prices and it's the price of land that goes up as well as the availablitiy according to demand. Keeping the initial price of the house down is good IF over time these houses prove popular, they last and they offer good quality of life.
I quite like the Northern edge one. The sixtyk one artistically is appealing, though we really need to know more about them - there are tiny windows on the upper floor - is there some sort of glass roof going on? Quite a few of them look to be the steel modular design that Alain de Botton was looking at in the Netherlands on his prog last saturday.
actually one of the designs (this one I think) http://www.designformanufacture.info/sixtyk is currently being built on Store Street in London... it's not open to the public yet (but it looks finished so it probably will be soon)
Originally posted by curly_wurly: Does this include land? If not they're an absolute joke.
Don't forget that in many parts of the country 60k would buy a couple of half decent terraced houses just 5 years or so ago.
iirc the land was to be provided free on government land - old hospital/barracks sites. The purchases would therefore not have freehold & there were to be restrictions on who could buy and there would be a part-ownership element.
