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Thank goodness the government is apparently ignoring the RIBA President and starting to realise the blanket imposition of space standards is having a detrimental effect on housing supply.

Whilst there is a strong argument to maintain space standards in tax payer funded housing, that argument starts to significantly erode when "market" housing is considered. Particularly in high demand conurbations like London.

Ben Derbyshire clearly has no interest in the micro economy where tiny plots of land developed by one person developers can become blighted because of a perverse imposition of blanket standards that take no account of context.

The anti-consumerist movement towards minimalism (owning less stuff) displays far and away more advanced thinking than the leaden-footed RIBA President.

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