{"id":112593,"date":"2019-11-23T14:00:49","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T07:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-billionaire-and-the-219-tiny-flats-a-new-low-for-rabbit-hutch-britain\/"},"modified":"2019-11-23T14:03:06","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T07:03:06","slug":"the-billionaire-and-the-219-tiny-flats-a-new-low-for-rabbit-hutch-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-billionaire-and-the-219-tiny-flats-a-new-low-for-rabbit-hutch-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"The billionaire and the 219 tiny flats: a new low for rabbit-hutch Britain?"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nA 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. They describe it as a \u201chuman warehouse\u201d that would be filled with people living in \u201ccramped single-occupancy shoeboxes\u201d like \u201crabbits in hutches\u201d.Amid claims that some of the planned flats would be as small as 15 sq metres \u2013 that\u2019s less than 13ft by 13ft for residents\u2019 entire living space \u2013 some locals say the proposal is one of the most shocking examples yet of the phenomenon known as office-to-residential conversion. A typical Premier Inn hotel room is 21 sq metres, while national space standards state that the minimum floor area for a new one-bedroom one-person home is 37 sq metres. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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