Rob R
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Pre-manufacturered housingLove it or hate it?
Huf houses, container pods, BoKlok, log cabins, timber frame...
Following on from Windymiller's container housing, what do you think of the concept as a whole?
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lettucewoman
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.....well I have to say that cos I live in one!! Park homes are manufactured off site and then sited...this one is like a bungalow, and we love it to death ... 
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Simon
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You forgot a 'Not bothered either way' option. 
I've got nothing against them but I wouldn't particularly want to live in one.
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Rob R
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| Simon wrote: | You forgot a 'Not bothered either way' option.
I've got nothing against them but I wouldn't particularly want to live in one. |
That was deliberate
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boisdevie1
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I suppose it depends where they are built and from what. I wonder what the embedded energy is of say a park home compared with a small bungalow?
I'd rather that houses were built from material available locally but then I'm an eternal optimist.
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Rob R
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Far more resource efficient I would guess- we make just about everything else we use in factories for that reason. 
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Windymiller
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It all depends on how well designed and built they are. Much is made of the weight and durability of brick/stone/concrete houses, but times and needs change. There are many old but inefficient buildings around, which have outlived their original purpose, but are kept anyway.
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Jamanda
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I'm with Simon. It 's not what I would choose, but I've nothing against them, and I can see that if there is a housing shortage they could be a useful part of the solution. Getting all the empty, decaying properties there are back into use would be a very good thing too.
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Gervase
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The trouble with McHouses is that they are an abnegation of local vernacular building. Already we see that site-built houses are looking more and more alike, with the same style and materials wherever they are in the UK, and most of the kit houses I've seen take that blandness a stage further, looking like a hideously tasteless transatlantic/pan-European compromise.
On that basis, and because materials used aren't locally sourced, I'm against them.
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Gervase
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...and they're virtually 'throw away'. Timber-framed housing is now made with a life of 40 years. To me that's almost obscene.
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mark
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one issue that is seldom thought through with buildings is what happens at the end of their life! Building rubble is a big contributor to landfill
especially from building that are more roughly demolished.
There is a lot to be said for building with lower impact recyclable materials
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Rob R
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| mark wrote: | one issue that is seldom thought through with buildings is what happens at the end of their life! Building rubble is a big contributor to landfill
especially from building that are more roughly demolished.
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Don't remind me. The neighbour has just filled two skips with concrete rubble without mentioning it to us, who have a whacking great hole in the yard for a new shed base 
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jema
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| Gervase wrote: | | ...and they're virtually 'throw away'. Timber-framed housing is now made with a life of 40 years. To me that's almost obscene. |
I have voted in favour on the grounds that it could be done well, must admit I had no idea of the 40 year lark, that is awful 
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