Internal housing space standards in Italy and England

Gallent, Nick; Madeddu, Manuela; Mace, Alan

doi:10.1016/j.progress.2010.04.001

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“…The UK has the smallest homes by floor area in Europe (Gallent, Madeddu, & Mace, 2010), as shown in Table 1. The reasons for this are complex, but are related to the removal of space standards in the 1980s, the high value of land, and the low number of homes built by public authorities and housing associations (Barker, 2004a).…”

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Quantifying the extent of space shortages: English dwellings

Morgan¹,

Cruickshank²

2014

Building Research & Information

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Lack of internal space is a problem in UK homes, and is often linked to a lack of space standards for housing in the UK. Although previous studies have examined new-build housing, this paper uses a new method to study 16 000 dwellings in the English Housing Survey (EHS) 2010 to examine existing housing and compare them with a modern space standard in an attempt to quantify the extent and magnitude of the problem. Dwellings in the survey were compared against a slightly modified version of the London Housing Design Guide 2010 internal space standard. It was found that between 21% and 55% of dwellings failed to meet the standard; and that flats and small terraced houses were most commonly below the standard. Dwellings were also frequently found to be under-occupied in comparison with the number of bedrooms. This research hypothesized that this was a result of the lack of space. To illustrate the use of this new analysis method, a recent change to the Housing Benefit system (colloquially known as the 'Bedroom Tax') has been considered. Households receiving Housing Benefit were more likely to be undersized, suggesting that the policy to withdraw housing benefits from these households may be misguided.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Quantifying the extent of space shortages: English dwellings

Morgan¹,

Cruickshank²

2014

Building Research & Information

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“…8 Even newly constructed three-bedroom houses in the country are on average only 88 m 2 /947 ft 2 (just 10 percent greater than the target). Local housing advocates are often justifiably prone to contend that prevailing circumstances are acutely problematic and evidence of a pressing crisis of poor housing (Gallent, Madeddu, and Mace 2010;Morgan and Cruickshank 2014;Madeddu, Gallent, and Mace 2015). Media reports routinely describe "shoe-box homes" and the country overall as "rabbit-hutch Britain" (see, for example, Jones 2017; Garber 2018; also Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government 2017).…”

Section: Calculating Parameters For Sufficient Home Sizementioning

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New Conceptions of Sufficient Home Size in High-Income Countries: Are We Approaching a Sustainable Consumption Transition?

Cohen

2020

Housing, Theory and Society

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Housing plays a significant role in impelling demand for natural resources and driving economic growth in high-income countries. Public policies, commercial prerogatives, and other inducements have encouraged construction and occupancy of ever-larger homes and this pattern has persisted in the face of decreasing household size, declining fertility, ageing populations, and increasing complexity of domestic relationships. This situation has created a perverse mismatch between available housing stocks and residential requirements. Additionally, imperatives to curtail greenhouse-gas emissions and to hasten progress on the United Nations 2030 Agenda demand new planning priorities. Building on the sufficiency turn in the field of sustainable consumption, this paper first formulates parameters for estimating an environmentally tenable and globally equitable amount of per person living area. It then highlights five emblematic cases of "space-efficient" housing. While acknowledging that prevalent spatial norms are evolving, the conclusion discusses the profound challenges of achieving a successful sustainable consumption transition.

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“…Lochiel Park contains 103 dwellings, with an average size of 203m 2 , about the same as the South Australian average for new homes developed in 2008/9 [8], but large in comparison with those in the UK and to a lesser extent Europe [61]. The standard building envelope thermal performance required for Lochiel Park was a minimum of 7.5 Stars (<58MJ/m 2 /yr) on a 10 Star scale.…”

Section: Lochiel Park Green Villagementioning

confidence: 99%