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Amphibious houses in Maasbommel |
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House and Home
In 2001 we built fewer houses than at any time since the war. House prices have soared as demand has outstripped supply. Now the Government is planning more than a million new homes in the South east of England as the number of households in this country rises.
But a report by the former CBI economist and now member of the Bank of England 's monetary policy committee, Kate Barker says we should be building far more than that if we want to stop house prices rising at such a rapid rate.
More and more of us want to live alone or at least in smaller family units. More of us want to live in the South or East of the country because that's where the jobs are. Also we're living longer.
This all suggests that we do need more houses. But in some parts of the country we have a surplus of housing stock and there are fears that we could be concreting over the countryside in the quest for new housing.
Shop Talk looks at the future of new housing. Do we like what's being built at the moment? Would pre-fab houses be the answer - they're quick and easy to construct and some say that with modern methods you can't tell they've been built in a factory.
Also, with the serious threat of flooding in many parts of the country the programme goes to the Netherlands to visit a community where the houses rise with the flood water. Dylan Winter reports on community of amphibious houses in Maasbommel, the Netherlands.
GUESTS
Alex Ely
Housing Policy Adviser at CABE, Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment
Charlie Luxton
BBC3 Presenter Dreamspaces and Guerrilla Homes
Mike May
Peabody Trust housing association
Chris Zevenbergen
Dura Vermeer (Dutch company constructing amphibious homes)
Steve Proctor
Proctor and Matthews architects
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