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Thomas, well voiced, but you must understand by now that Paul does not engage in bilateral debate or recognise it's value: he is right, everyone else is wrong. (his opinion, not mine)

The reality is there is desperate need for some small scale housing, studio house, boutique house, call it what you will. Not affordable, but designed and built for affordability; for the young professional or newlywed first time buyers, to create half a rung up in the massive void that exists at the bottom of the market. We have recently designed such, self contained, with external amenity and off road parking at 600 sq ft; our Client aspires to build them for £60k to create a product for the FTB (average age now 37, requiring 95% national average wage as deposit to even consider current stock!) This is where we as Architects need to lead. Those who are worried about upsetting house holders are likely already sold out to them! My own experience of working with the housebuilder is estate planning using their already designed and well used standard house types; they are a rising tide of flood in the country as bad as concrete block paving!