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The only, only, way you'll get more space into new housing, is to create a lot more supply. You can regulate for bigger space, but you won't get it if it is uneconomic to build - and that is what affordable housing tax has done to space - made it more expensive for developers to create living space, so the bits they can sell they have to build for less, or make the flats smaller. Land needs to be more plentiful and cheaper before any new standards will generate better space. The RIBA is not getting to the meat of the argument. We all want bigger homes, but better design can't deliver them in the circumstances we have at the moment. The RIBA needs to team up with the housebuilders and developers to get the argument sorted.