No Room To Swing A Cat

Gateshead Council spends much time on the need for "family homes" in Saltwell & Bensham yet has no plans to build any.

Even if it did suddenly develop plans it would need to deal with the problem that rooms are now smaller in Britain than anywhere else in Europe. They are even smaller than the houses they have tried to demolish.

Government adviser CABE (Committee for Built Environment) has done a survey of houses built between 2003 and and 2006. The average room size being just 15m square in Britain - the smallest in Europe. Total floor space of new builds in Britain being 76m square. This compares with the US figure of 214m square and Australia at 206m square. Denmark has 137m square on average for its citizens.

As always this blog tries to helpful to "demolition central" in Gateshead Civic Centre. When they do get around to proposing replacing demolished streets with more than grass they will need a disclaimer for prospective purchasers to discourage them from swinging a cat in their front room and damaging the walls such will be the lack of space for buyers.

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