Housing Shortage

HOMES CRISIS 20 July 2005
From our excellent local paper The Herald Express
"Westcountry people need a home. Politicians, business leaders and local authorities are warning that the shortage of affordable homes in the Westcountry is at crisis point.New figures reveal it will take at least 100 years at existing construction rates to clear the backlog of people needing a place of their own."


As you can see in the two photos I took, 38 studio appartments have been built in Regent Close in an attempt to over come this problem.
The top photo was taken on August 1 2004 and shows work just starting on the site at Regent Close.
This Photo was taken on August 2 2005 as the first people were just starting to move in.

That works out at a rate of one studio appartment every nine and a half days. At this rate this company will have build 3817 studio appartments in the next hundred years.That isn't bad going when you consider that it took 14 months to build the Empire State Building.