… can be found very close to UK shores.

Here, our family housing is about as different as possible from the wonderful housing I discovered so nearby.  In the UK, volume house-builders have been churning out the same crap for decades.  The legacy of private house building in the UK over the last 30 years is countless thousands of homogeneous, mass produced, low quality housing estates.

These estates are familiar to everyone: They are a common sight on the edge of every town and they all look very similar hence why they are sometimes called ‘Anywhere Estates’.  They are alien impositions that land, unwelcomed on the edge of towns and villages, usually where a local council has designated a field or two as developable land.  Usually, a lucky house-builder will already have a deal with the farmer, as they will have made similar speculative deals with all the farmers and landowners nearby.  In…