{"id":104615,"date":"2019-03-02T14:30:30","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T07:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/will-these-be-the-worst-new-rabbit-hutch-flats-in-britain\/"},"modified":"2019-03-02T15:04:38","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T08:04:38","slug":"will-these-be-the-worst-new-rabbit-hutch-flats-in-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/will-these-be-the-worst-new-rabbit-hutch-flats-in-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"Will these be the worst new \u2018rabbit hutch\u2019 flats in Britain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nA developer plans to squeeze 26 flats into this building, some smaller than a budget hotel roomTwenty-six studio flats measuring as little as 18 sq metres \u2013 that\u2019s just under 14ft by 14ft for residents\u2019 entire living, washing and eating space \u2013 are set to be crammed into a scruffy two-storey commercial building on an industrial estate. A typical Premier Inn hotel room, by comparison, is 21.3 sq metres.Some of the flats would apparently be windowless, with the only natural light seemingly coming from a roof light or skylight \u2013 so they would offer no view out. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2019\/mar\/02\/will-these-be-the-worst-new-rabbit-hutch-flats-in-britain\" target=\"_blank\">Will these be the worst new \u2018rabbit hutch\u2019 flats in Britain?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; A developer plans to squeeze 26 flats into this building, some smaller than a budget&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-rdl","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":112593,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-billionaire-and-the-219-tiny-flats-a-new-low-for-rabbit-hutch-britain\/","url_meta":{"origin":104615,"position":0},"title":"The billionaire and the 219 tiny flats: a new low for rabbit-hutch Britain?","date":"November 23, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"\r A London office block is to be turned into apartments, and some could be just 4 metres by 4 metresCampaigners have piled in to criticise plans drawn up by a billionaire property tycoon to cram more than 200 tiny flats into an office building in north London. 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