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Noddy housing

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forms, and window and door styles derived from older methods of construction. Because of the commerciality of volume housebuilding and the desire for companies to cut costs in construction, these elements suffer – with bricks being less attractive and mass-produced kinds, and windows and doors being
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Noddy houses are typically small homes on narrow plots of land built since the early 1990s by large property development companies. They are normally considered to be far less spacious than homes built in preceding decades of the 20th century, and are perceived as being poorly executed
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A counterpoint to this argument is that they are not so much poorly executed houses, but simply cheaper houses with the merit of being more affordable. If they were more spacious and built of better materials on larger plots of land, self-evidently they would cost more.
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Noddy houses usually appear to tip towards traditional ideals of British housebuilding through use of brick and masonry detail,
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with only suggestions of traditional detail by way of fake 'integral'
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Tract housing
"'Noddy box' housing would be banned in Wayne's world"
The Herald
"No more shoddy Noddy boxes says RIBA"
the original
"In praise of ... ideal homes"
The Guardian
"Prescott to outlaw 'Noddy' housing"
The Prefabricated Home
ISBN
1-86189-243-8
"New homes must be fit for purpose, says leading architect"
The Guardian
"Labelling new properties 'Noddy boxes' is simply unfair"
"No more noddy boxes! Design judges' dismay at British buildings"
The Independent
Archived
"Housing reform is the only way to solve generational inequality"
City A.M.
Kevin McCloud

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