Hundreds of 26 sq m modular homes built to order at
factory near Leeds to be rented out at lower cost than flatsharing. The first
production run from a vast new factory outside Leeds began this week – with timber
delivered at one end, and just a week later a fully furnished one-bed flat
popping out the other. Legal & General Homes is promising to build
thousands of flats and houses a year at the revolutionary, and highly
secretive, factory, and delivered around the country on the back of trucks. Is
this the solution to the housing crisis – or a new age of soulless prefabs for
rabbit hutch Britain? Read more on the Guardian website.
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