At blooming last

[NotAllThere]

Does anyone actually want a new build?

No. The apartments to the north and west of my house were demolished in 2022 and finally will be inhabited from March 2024. The noise and dust was pretty awful. I really get how the protagonist felt in "Up". We did go through the legal routes to reduce the footprint of the new apartment block and their height, but lost, since the local planning department waved the plans through. I did ask the planning inspector if he live in our town... he was embarrassed.

But - the new blocks look nice, are all for rent only, are disabled friendly and provide twice as many apartments as the previous blocks.

And apparently have increased the value of my house.

[BlasterBates]

Interesting, people have on average more floor space than they did in the 1990's.

https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/a...per-person.pdf

Between 1996 and 2018 floorspace per person rose from 34.8m2 to 38.1m2 in England
and from 31.4m2 to 32.6m2 in London, with very little change in the last decade

Which is not surprising since the number of dwellings in the UK has risen by 18% over the last 20 years whereas the population has risen by 10%.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/...gs-in-england/

he number of dwellings in England increased steadily since 2001, reaching a total of approximately 25 million dwellings as of March 31st 2021. In 2001, the first year under observation, there was a total of over 21.2 million dwellings in England, meaning that the estimated total number of dwellings increased by more than 3.6 million during the period under observation.